Podcasts about Princeton High School

The Monmouth-Roseville Titans take on Rockridge in a class 2A regional championship at Princeton High School.

Lance and Paul McMillan discuss the Kingdom League which returns to Princeton High School this summer. Tune in!

James Rapien, from AllBengals.com, talks about the Bengals roster and gives OTA updates. Paul McMillan, organizer of the Kingdom League Cincinnati, breaks down the talent playing in the summer league at Princeton High School this summer. Lance takes your calls on the Reds, APBA, Strat-O-Matic, Pursue-the-Pennant baseball games. Tune in!

Lance and Paul McMillan discuss the Kingdom League which returns to Princeton High School this summer. Tune in!

James Rapien, from AllBengals.com, talks about the Bengals roster and gives OTA updates. Paul McMillan, organizer of the Kingdom League Cincinnati, breaks down the talent playing in the summer league at Princeton High School this summer. Lance takes your calls on the Reds, APBA, Strat-O-Matic, Pursue-the-Pennant baseball games. Tune in!

Today, we cover Princeton's Compassionate Medicine Fellowship, US News's ranking of Princeton High School, a drop in Tesla's first-quarter profits, and new abortion measures in Italy.Note: This podcast states that Aigbiniode is a staff Features writer and staff Archivist. In fact, she is a contributing Features writer and contributing Archivist.---https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-features-compassionate-medicine-fellowship-religious-life-orl

In which Kim Groome, who has taught about both America's history and its government at PHS for over a decade, tackles questions about the purpose of education, the perils of this political moment, and the problems with our response to climate change. So, easy topics, right?"PHS Talks" is a part of of Princeton High School's student run newspaper, The Tower.

In this "Giant Mess", single dad Neal Lynch recaps his wild week with his daughter that included the Jammin' with Santa extravganza at Princeton High School, pictures with Santa at MarketFair, a 90-minute haircut, electric vehicles, feuds with his building's property manager, some Mean Girls behavior, and his kid's first viewing of a 3D movie in a theater, Trolls Band Together. ABOUT "GIANT MESS": "Giant Mess" is a sloppy sports and entertainment talk show about New York Giants football, Mets baseball, movies, TV shows, funny stories and life lessons. It's hosted by a giant mess, The Real Cinch Neal Lynch.   ABOUT NEAL LYNCH: I'm an Irish-Italian-American who graduated from a Catholic high school (but isn't Catholic), and a college known for producing doctors and lacrosse players, then became neither. Instead, I'm a former college quarterback & pitcher with a film and media studies degree who currently overthinks everything. Subscribe to Giant Mess on YouTube: https://bit.ly/GiantMessYT     Follow me on: Link Tree - https://linktr.ee/neallynch My Official Blog - http://bit.ly/neallynchBLOG   Giant Mess Facebook Page - http://bit.ly/GiantMessFB  Twitter - http://bit.ly/NealLynchTW    Instagram - http://bit.ly/NealLynchIG  Subscribe to Giant Mess on Apple Podcasts - http://bit.ly/GiantMessApple  Subscribe to Giant Mess on Spotify - http://bit.ly/GiantMessSpotify --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/neal-lynch/message

Bhavya Yaddanapudi '25 is here to answer some of your most burning questions about life at Princeton High School: how should us students deal with climate anxiety? Can you do karate and run track at the same time? What's the geographical makeup of Michigan?PHS Talks is a podcast produced by the Multimedia section of the Tower, PHS's student-run newspaper. To see more from the Tower, visit https://www.towerphs.com/home.

Houston Chef Stanton Bundy of Travelers Table will be on TV competing in 'Beat Bobbyl Flay' on the Food Network.....and Princeton High School in North Texas recently constructed an 18-foot-tall mum!

Former Cincinnati Bengal Eric "ET" Thomas returns to In the Trenches with Dave Lapham to talk about his days with the Bengals and how he uses what he learned to help develop the new generation here in Cincinnati. ET was a key part of the Bengals defense that went to the Super Bowl in 1988 and he has stayed in Cincinnati after his career. Thomas now coaches at Princeton High School where he coaches the DBs and has done a great job with not only team success but seeing the kids he coaches earn scholarships at the next level. Stay tuned for later in the week for Part 2 of our interview with Eric Thomas where Lap and ET dive deeper into the 2023 Bengals and the expectations they have.

WVU baseball recap ... Princeton High School's Grant Cochran on North/South All Star GameJoe Mazulla staff losses

Today, we cover student perspectives on the honor committee, an update on the sudden removal of Princeton High School's principal, a major deployment of U.S. troops to the southern border, and the looming threat of a default on the national debt.Read more of Julian Hartman-Sigall's reporting on the Honor Committee here, or at dailyprincetonian.comRead more on the controversy at Princeton High School here, or at dailyprincetonian.com

                                Who is Dwight Price? “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men” Frederick Douglass My name is Dwight Price, I was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and attended Princeton High School. I was incarcerated for the first time at seventeen years old and released when I was twenty-eight. I went back to the only lifestyle I knew which was the streets. I got in trouble again and went back to prison. I'm forty-four years old now and the streets took seventeen and a half years of my life. I have changed my hustle from street criminal to business entrepreneur by opening up six businesses in the past five years. I want to give back and guide the youth in the right direction so that they do not make the same mistakes as I did. I will be the help and motivation that I did not experience from my parents or community growing up. My mission is to motivate, inspire, and build character in the hearts and minds of our youth through motivational speaking, positive mentoring, and helping to strengthen our communities! Connect with Dwight https://linktr.ee/30dayflipbrothers   BY FRAME YOUR DAY APP  HTTP://KINGDOMBEADS.COM/  & HTTPS://NATURALSOAPBYZAKIA.COM CONTRIBUTORS HTTP://EDINBURGHDUSTERS.CO.UK/ - CLEANERS EDINBURGH HTTP://IDEASGOLIVE.COM/ - WEB DESIGN  HTTPS://BENITACHARLES.COM The Guy R Cook Report HTTPS://ILEANESMITH.COM HTTPS://BRENTMANNMUSIC.COM SPEAKEASY PODCAST -ALTOVISE PELZER #MUSIC #EDINBURGH #USA #CLEANERSEDINBURGH #CARPETS #CLEAN #EP #CARPETCLEANING #LOTHIAN #USA #AUTHOR #COACH #KEYNOTE #SPEAKER #LOTHIANCARPETCLEANING #PODCAST #PODCASTING #RADIO #DOMESTICVIOLENCE #DEPRESSION #GANG #TEXAS #TORONTO #CANADA #R&B #HIPPOP #CHRISTIAN #LESTWEFORGET #NAVYCORE #TEXAS #POPPY #REMEMBRANCE #ATLANTA #GEORGIA #MARINECORE #DAD #NEG2POS #DOMESTICABUSE #SEVENTHDAY #ENTREPRENEUR  #CHRISTMAS #PUBLISHING #FESTIVE #MARYLAND #TEACHING #CANADA #SASKATOON #COUNTRYMUSIC #EP #2019 #2018 #NEWYEAR #CONSTIPATION #EMOTIONALLY #BOOK #COUNSELLING #COUNSELLOR #WASHINGTONDC #MARYLAND #USA #PERSONALTRAINER #FITNESS #LONELINESS #BULLYING #UGLY #MICHIGAN #LELANDBEST #DOMESTICVIOLENCE #AUTISM #PLUSSIZE #MODELLING #AUSTRALIA #SUICIDE #BODYBUILDING #FEMALE #OBESE #CHAMPION #STUNTWOMAN #ACTRESS #SINGER #HEARINGLOSS #FALLGIRL #CLINTEASTWOOD #ROCKFORDFILES #BIPOLAR #CHOREOGRAPHER #CHICAGO #CEREBRALPALSY #TYPE1DIABETES #CHURCH #GOD #DOMESTIC #ABUSE #AUTHOR #MARYLAND #SINGAPORE #CHINA #VOICE #CROSSOVER #UPSTATE #MUSIC #CARE #CAREGIVERS #CHICAGO #TENNESSEE #COVID19 #GORDONRAMSAY #WWE #SHAWNMICHAELS #SINCARA #BOXING #LYMEDISEASE #DOUBLEMINTRADIO #DOWNSYNDROME #DOUBLEMINTRADIO #WJMSRADIO #tedtalk #jamaica #atlanta #alabama #molested #alcohol #edinburgh  #pornactor #goth #mentalhealth #sikh #honourkillings #raped #massmurder #holistic #healing #texas #drugs #addict #molested #nursing #oneelement #personaltrainer #christianrock #deargod #linktre #prison   

This week on Ignyte Your Why Podcast we get take a deep dive into Best Selling Author - Vernon Jackson's story. Vernon was born and raised in Cincinnati, OH - graduating from Princeton High School. But after graduation, he decided to take the route of a trade instead of a university. That is where he found his passion. Vernon became a best selling author with his book Looking Glass: A Man's Reflections Within The Scope of Dating & Relationships. The goal of his book is to develop common empathy and to build a bridge for deeper communication between the sexes. On top of being a best selling author, Vernon is the co-owner of Nobel Barber and Beauty here in Cincinnati, OH and a motivational speaker. During this conversation we learn about his journey as an entrepreneur and how he has evolved as a man. Tune in now to listen to Vernon's remarkable story! Want to support Vernon and purchase his book? Click the link here: https://author-vernon-jackson.myshopify.com/products/looking-glass Available on ignyteyourwhy.com/podcast, Apple Podcast, Spotify and more! How can I support this podcast moving forward? Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ignyte-your-why/support Vernon Jackson's Information: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebest1period/ Book: authorvernonjackson.com Haircuts By VJ: https://www.vagaro.com/vjcuts

Monmouth-Roseville travels to Princeton High School to end the regular season.

Join me as Tom Pinneo and I chat about residential construction, from remodeling a kitchen to building the home of your dreams. What is the timeline now to obtain building materials, and what do they cost these days? How much is it, per square foot, to renovate or build anew? Can we be more strategic, when it comes to installing home energy systems, for the good of both our wallets and our planet? We tackle these questions and more in this episode.https://pinneoconstruction.com/Tom Pinneo Bio:I am a graduate of Princeton High School and Middlebury College and hold a M.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University, which, if you get me talking, was the perfect preparation for a career in building. It turns out we don't know much today that the Taoists hadn't figured out a long time ago.After training at the North Bennet Street School in Boston and working for builders from New England to the Pacific Northwest, I started Pinneo Construction in 1996. After a quarter century of restoring, remodeling, adding on to, and building some of Princeton's most distinguished homes, the gratification that comes from collaborating with area architects and clients remains as strong as ever. I live in Princeton with my wife Julie and son Steven though I seek out places with mountains for fun skiing, biking, and running.

We are back with another Female Voices Rock In Conversation presentation, this time with none other than Effie T. Brown! Host, Amy DePaola sat down with Effie during the Facebook LIVE! Virtual Filmmaking Summit hosted by Female Voices Rock! Effie T. Brown is an award winning film, television, and digital producer known for her highly acclaimed, multi-platform repertoire as well as championing inclusion and diversity in Hollywood, both behind and in front of the camera. Brown has produced several critically acclaimed films and award-winning projects including Real Women Have Curves (directed by Patricia Cardosa) Dear White People (2015 Independent Spirit Awards Best First Screenplay), HBO’s Project Greenlight (Executive Produced by Matt Damon & Ben Affleck), among several others. Brown also served as an executive producer on Lee Daniels’ STAR on FOX and Disney Channel’s Zombies. Prior to Gamechanger, Brown founded Duly Noted Inc., a company dedicated to ground-breaking narratives that use genre to challenge and advance our culture in a disruptive way. Brown’s dream is to change the world through film and TV – celebrating our differences while bringing us all closer together. She is the CEO of Gamechanger Films, the first equity fund dedicated to financing feature films directed by women in order to address gender disparity in the film industry. ALSO in this week's episode: Women Crushing It: Kyara and Valeria Torres-Olivares are the co-founders of Code Equal, a non-profit with the mission to get underrepresented minorities in STEM, such as women and women of color, exposure to computer science, innovation, and entrepreneurship.    Code Equal provides free computer science classes, workshops, hackathons, mentors, and the tools self-identifying girls and underrepresented minorities need to enter CS fields with the confidence and knowledge to succeed.   Valeria Torres-Olivares is currently a rising Junior at Princeton University, studying Public Policy, International Relations, and Computer Science. She started her coding journey in High School and developed a passion for it and for empowering women to go into STEM through Kode With Klossy and Code Equal. Last summer she interned for Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman and this summer she will be interning at Microsoft, she hopes in the future to go into tech policy.    Kyara Torres-Olivares  is currently a rising Junior at Princeton High School. She started coding when she attended Kode With Klossy a couple summers ago and fell in love with it. She also loves to combine all of her passions like singing, sports, and doing volunteer work in her community.   ABOUT FEMALE VOICES ROCK: Female Voices Rock was founded in order to help promote, nurture and produce stories through the female perspective. They do so through their annual Film Festival as well as educational and networking opportunities.    

Acting saved Patrick Arnheim from flunking out of Princeton High School in New Jersey. He ended up studying acting at New York City’s esteemed Circle in The Square Theater School and went on to a successful career working in TV, movies, commercials & voice-over before taking a step back after over a decade to help care for his father down in Charleston, SC. Since his move down south, he’s reignited his passion for stage acting with the help of the Village Repertory Co. and has starred in dozens of productions, including plays such as Bent, Junk, & The Elephant Man. You can keep up with Patrick on Instagram at @patrickarnheim --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jwn/message

 While President Trump has been calling the Coronavirus the Chinese virus and while the US is facing unprecedented protests against police violence and racial discrimination, Back in America is examining how these events have affected the Chinese Community.In this episode, I speak with Cecilia Birge a former Montgomery, NJ mayor, a form bond analyst on Wall Street, now a head coach and a member of the Princeton High School Speech and Debate Team.Cecilia shares her experience organizing fundraising with the Chinese community to help local first responders. For us, she revisits her childhood in Chineses labor camps. As a student in Bejing during the Tiananmen Protests, she talks of her fear at the time and the turmoil in the city.Today America is her home and the way she talks about this country and understands it help us see America in a different light. TranscriptBarak Obama 0:00 If you're tired of arguing with strangers on the internet, try talking with one of them in real life.Jon 0:14 Welcome to back in America, the podcast.Stanislas Berteloot 0:23 Welcome to back in America, the podcast why explore the American's identity, culture, and values. In this episode, I look at the experience of an American of Chinese origin and how the current pandemic has impacted her life. My guest is a former mayor from Montgomery, New Jersey. She grew up in a Chinese prison camp and was a student in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square protests. President Trump is trying very hard to blame his failure to contain the COVID-19 pandemic on the Chinese. In turn, anti-Asian racist action had raised to about 100 reported cases per day in February, according to Congresswoman Judy Chu.Donal Trump 1:28 COVID COVID to be specific COVID-19 that name gets further and further away from China as opposed to calling it the Chinese virus. By the way, it's a disease without question has more names than any disease in history. I can name 'Kung-Flu' I can name 19 different versions.Stanislas Berteloot 2:06 Hi, Cecilia, welcome to back in America.Cecilia Birge 2:09 Hello. Thank you for having me.Stanislas Berteloot 2:12 So Cecilia, back in March, you were instrumental in launching several fundraising to help first responder here in Princeton, in their effort to fight against the COVID pandemic. I wonder if you could tell us what motivated you to run these campaigns?Cecilia Birge 2:30 Well, first of all, it actually wasn't me. It was the entire Chinese community, led by a group of, we call it the organizing committee, which is a group of 10 people or so. This happened probably around February or so. When Coronavirus first hit China in late December and early January. Many of the Chinese residents in Princeton and frankly in all of the world experienced that remotely. And many, many of them participated in fundraising donations to back home to their relatives to their colleges, and so on and so forth. Nobody expected Coronavirus to hit America so heavily and so abruptly. And nobody certainly expected that our government responded in such a slow fashion. So as it gradually moved inland towards us, and Princeton, unfortunately, is one of the first places that had Coronavirus in New Jersey. People got really worried. And as the government was formulating its ideas, gradually, the next piece of news we heard was, we didn't have enough PPEs. And so as you can imagine, as someone who just went through this experience remotely and now seeing it happening in our own community, people got really anxious and people wanted to do something and so that When these 10 people jumped in and got the community organized and quickly came up with a plan and execute executedStan 4:07 PPE?Cecilia Birge 4:09 Personal protective equipment which is, which includes goggles, masks their different kinds of masks. And this is something I've learned a lot that way as well. I'd never imagined that there could be so much specifications, different classifications and certifications and approvals that could go into masks, medical gals, face shields, anything that you can imagine that protect, protect our first responders that includes policemen, em as, and of course, our doctors and nurses and everybody in the hospitals.Stanislas Berteloot 4:41 So would you say that because the virus originated first in China, the Chinese community was particularly concerned about this pandemic?Cecilia Birge 4:51 Absolutely. And also, don't forget this is also at least you know, I have been, I've been in this country for 30 years. I don't have a strong connection with China anymore. But many residents in Princeton still have that strong connection. And many of them actually witness the SARS some years ago. So this is not only the second time around by the time you hit America, it's third time around. So in a way they are they know what kind of speed to expect for our government to handle this kind of thing to keep it up to keep it under control. And we were not doing that at the time.Stanislas Berteloot 5:27 And how much did you raise them together?Cecilia Birge 5:30 The total value exceeded about $62,000. We actually initially set the fundraising goal. There are two parts, we raised money. We also collected donations because we identified the needs in the community. It's not just personal protective gears for first responders but also the most vulnerable segment of our community which is especially the kids free and reduced lunch programs in our schools. So we collected food we collected To daily essentials, we also collected money. The fundraising goal was initially set at $10,000. And we reached that goal overnight. So we quickly you know, added to that. Eventually we raised it. We raised over $26,000 in cash in total. And then the rest of it are all donations of PPS and can food and daily essentials.Stanislas Berteloot 6:25 Wow. So you saw you saw the entire Asian, our should I say Chinese community come together in order to help the local community fight the coronavirus, and yet, President Trump calling it the Chinese virus. How do you think that made you and other Asian people feel?Cecilia Birge 6:51 So it's so infuriating and frustrating in so many ways. I think That just the fact that we have to explain to you know, the leader of this country, why it's so wrong to identify a virus based on this location and specifically link, link it to, to to a certain ethnic group and almost with the sole intention to insult someone you know, I've reached the point where I'm so angry and mad I don't even I don't have words for it really I don't.Stanislas Berteloot 7:31 And what do you make of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused China of putting the world at risk because of his lack of transparency?Cecilia Birge 7:43 It's another lesson learned for all of us that you these kinds of bias and prejudice and racism comes from the same place which is ignorance and for someone who deliberately to use the power of words use their positions to, you know, practice this kind of racist views and, you know, filled with bias and hatred and even that is just wrong. They don't deserve the office that they hold. It's an insult to all the citizens, not just the Chinese. It's an insult to the office as well.Stanislas Berteloot 8:23 So let's come back to you. Cecilia Birge, you are Princeton High School head coach. You're also a member of the Speech and Debate Team. That's quite a stretch from your career on Wall Street where you were a bond analyst.Cecilia Birge 8:42 I guess so. Um, I, you know, I grew up in the academics family. And I think that my I have lots of physicists and mathematicians in my house. However, they were awesome. mathematicians and physicists who are very devoted to community affairs. My grandfather was the president of Peking University. He led the effort against the Three Gorges Dam. This was back in the 80s. And I was still in China at the time as a teenager, I I witnessed what he did back then against the communists.Stanislas Berteloot 9:26 Can you tell us a bit more about this, this effort and what it was?Cecilia Birge 9:30 Sure. So, the Three Gorges Dam is, I believe it's still the largest dam in the world. You know, as many people know, the Yangtze River, you know, carries a lot of heritage. And it's a lot of people identify that with China. It's the second-longest river in the world has lots and lots of cultural heritage along the way. It starts in Tibet. ends in Shanghai. So it cuts through China literally halfway through. And this was in the 80s and potential pain, sleep leadership, the government decided to build three courts to spin. This partly was to fulfill the need for hydroelectric electricity in China, because the country was beginning to develop it needed that power. But more importantly, it was more for building a legacy for potential pain because it's located in the province where he came from. My grandfather, being a scientist throughout his entire life believed that these things, decisions as such, should be made, should be made based on science rather than political convenience. So he led an A team of scientists, journalists, local politicians, citizens, and initiated an opposition at first They went all the way up to, I don't know, the English translation of it. I think it's called people's political consulting firm. It's almost like, it's like in the US, we have the Senate and the Congress. This is the equivalent of the Congress. The Three Gorges Dam vote received 30, more than 30% of no votes, which is the highest no votes in the entire country. It humiliated the communist party at the time. So that's the history of it. And now it's been built and it has created a lot of environmental military. You know, other issues as you can imagine.Stanislas Berteloot 11:38 So you come, you have a history of activism, I guess few people knowing you, either as a bond analyst, as a teacher, know that you grew up in labor camp in China. Can you take us back to that time if I were to ask you to close your eyes and tell us what you see and what you feel from your early memories, what would it be?Cecilia Birge 12:08 To begin with, I always said that I have a happy childhood. And it's not as dark as most people assume. So, but I was born in the dark ages of the modern Chinese history. I was born at the end of the cultural revolution. My mother, who grew up in America, she spent her teenage years here with my grandparents in California. I was born right when she was about to finish what he called it's not a term in the labor camp, but basically all these intellectuals were sent down to the labor camps to be re educated because Chairman Mao thought that they were too worthy. They only know how to use their words. They don't know how to use the tool in the country side. So let's send millions of these intellectuals go down to get re educated so that they can appreciate what we peasants went through before we took over the country and then they would appreciate what we have been done for the new country. So that was an oversimplified version of the Cultural Revolution. And so I was right, born around then. And as soon as I was born, she was sent back down to the to the countryside. I was left at home.At the time my grandfather was hiding from the Red Guards in Peking University where he was working as a chancellor. So my grandpa raised me a little bit. My father was probably the equivalent thing in today's in this country as a house arrest. He was considered a quote unquote, counter revolutionary, intellectual. My my father was also educated here went to University of Michigan, medical school, and He actually was the one who introduced with Western any theology to China. But because of these affiliations, he wasn't allowed in the operating room in China for almost 10 years. And so every day he was supposed to be home late at night. He would start the day very early, go to the hospital, have to do a loyalty dance in front of mouse portrait. And then he was spent the whole day to reform himself by cleaning all the bathrooms. So he was the janitor in the hospital for that many years. And then maybe in the evening, he was supposed to stay in the hospital writing his confessions, reflections of what he has learned from the mouse works, the little red books that he read again again again, and then he was he was allowed to come home late at night, nine o'clock, 10 o'clock or so, and the next day would would begin. In the meantime, the place where I was born, and it was a traditional Beijing style bungalow. But, you know, back then it was the affluent families had those those homes. The Chinese idea was to have four generations living under one roof. All the rooms were taken by the proletariat's.So, my family was left in the 12 square meters small room with you know, no toilet no nothing. So, so that was the environment I grew up but of course, I remember some of this my memories are there were very many happy memories of playing, you know, with stones and sands whatever I could find on the street. There were also stories being told about me spitting you know that the court there eventually once was taken by this many proletariats's in the corner became a have open-air kitchens so to speak. So people make food there and then they were brought in into the rooms and then ate with their families. So there was this granny who was supposed to be very relevant revolutionary. She always spied on my family. She always reported to the hospital, where my dad worked about what we were doing if we had visitors at all, we really didn't have many visitors. So apparently, I was told to what when I was for one day, I disliked that granny so much that I got into her pod. She was cooking, and I spit into her pot, which obviously created invited political problems for my dad. Then he ended up doing more loyalty dances. when things got worse in the city, at the age of four in the age of six, my mom took me I went to the labor camp with my mom. Again for kids. That was a happy time I got to play in the mountains. I do have memories of us living in a shed in the middle of the field.And the scary part was that our job was to make sure that the, the crops that was planted was not taken away by birds or other animals. So that was my mother's job. But at night, we didn't have any electricity. We didn't have any running water. And the meantime was so dark and the mountain is right there and you hear these wolves, you know, hollering, and then the next morning you would hear reports from you know, we call them peasants, I guess today is farmers. They the farmers lift in the canyon, and that's where it's more concentrated, we lived in the field. So they would report how many chickens were taken by the wolves, how many rabbits were eaten by the fox, and so on and so forth. So, you know, as the little kids four years old or five years old. I was actually that was when I felt like, oh, are the wolves gonna take me? When am I gonna do when they come and attack me? So yeah, that'sStanislas Berteloot 18:13 Wow, some kind of memories you've gotCecilia Birge 18:17 A different world.Stanislas Berteloot 18:19 And then you studied in Beijing and in 1989, you participated to the Tiananmen Square protests. How were those days?Cecilia Birge 18:34 In the 80s, the economy began to grow. And it was growing very unevenly. And actually then shopping the leader at the time, announced that it was okay for some people to be rich first, which was very different compared to the socialist ideology that the country had been holding on to. But unfortunately, certain people meant those with access to higher power. So there's the creation or the labeling of the clubs, which is, to some extent by them, my family got rehabilitated. And we're a part of that club in many ways. children whose parents are in power, have access to everything, you know if the country is developing and needs concrete, so we could probably with somebody's letter, and then all of a sudden everybody else got to know from certain manager, but because we have the letter from someone from higher up, that manager is going to sign up on that. So you know, all of these privileges that came along, so it was very unfair. And it was also a time when American school of thoughts begin to get into China. So the concept of equal opportunity become more and more became more and more prominent. And it was at that time who yelled bond who was a strong actor, ticket to for China to shift westwards they're closer to America and Western European countries, which is very, very different mentality in philosophy from the traditional approach of being allies with Soviet Union and, and other countries. So he died sadly. And because the students in particular viewed him as a champion of free speech, of equal opportunity, and because then shoppings suppression over who yelled bunkers he got shoved away. Later in his political career. The students made a request in Tim and square, which is the, you know, it's the center of Beijing, right in front of the Forbidden City, and the government ignore the student again again, and it just got escalated to the point. I think it was April 26 1989. People's Daily which is the official government newspaper, had an editorial and called the students margin student protest, a terrorist attack. And that's when things erupted. It paralyzed Beijing. There was no school anymore. All of us college kids, or tenements square we occupied the square with tents. hunger strike was going on, we demanded a conversation with a government. So eventually the government did come out. It took them a long while to come at it to engage in a dialogue with a student. So here again, my grandfather by then he retired, but it's a recognizable voice, probably one of the most recognizable academic voice. He got 10 college presidents together as a consortium and and wrote a letter a joint letter, as submitted to the central government. Asking the government to come out and speak to the students and hear their voices. Like I said they did eventually meet a wasn't a productive meeting, that hunger strike and it's soon after that. So arguably, if managed properly, it would have just died down right things we actually a lot of students were prepared to return to school expecting school to reopen the following September, but all of a sudden in early June you know, uniformed military trucks and whatnot descended upon Beijing occupied the major arteries and sort of cornered the students in in tenement square. And, you know, we all got the news and some people I wasn't on the square that evening, but I was there the previous nights and whatnot. And and before you know it, you hear bullets. That night, I was at home. I did not know never in my life. Did I Imagine that guns would be pointed at students but you know I heard non stop bullets. I actually thought you know who is getting married to now and who's getting getting married late at night that the fire works it's nonstop how much fireworks did they did they But it wasn't until the next morning when I got onto the street that I see students with blood you know, on their shirt on their faces and come you know, with eyes, you know, crying, bawling with eyes being red.It was it was a disaster. So my first instinct was to protect my family. I was living with my grandparents at the time. They were you know, the either These are people had who had gone through wars. So I remember we we used every single container we could find it the house, bathtubs, you know different trays and what We filled it with water because we were afraid that water was going to cut off. The next thing was I rushed to the to the market, we just got everything we could get our hands on, especially canned food, to prepare for who knows what to come. It was three, four days of a city, one of the largest cities in the world with no government, every now and then there will be a truck of soldiers driving by and some just drop by quickly with nothing others, you know, you will hear bullets as soon as you hear bullets, everybody is on the ground. So it went on like that for three four days before finally the government came out and pronounced it a terrorist attack. So the government had to come out and put down in the meantime, and the part with Tiananmen Square was all sealed. No people are allowed to enter but gradually people were going on their bicycles around town in Beijing trying to have a peek into what's happening in there and you see burnt trucks burn tires, you see, you know, bloody clothes left somewhere. So there are some pretty gruesome scenes around them. And up till today, nobody knows how many people died on this square. Nobody knows who's responsible for it, although in or I should say everybody knows who should be responsible for it. And if you go to China today, the topic is heavily censored. Nobody talks about it. And that concerns me more than anything else, honestly. And it's gonna be one of these things. Not going down in Chinese history. Well, I don't know how, whether it's by force or by will if a country of its people especially if it's forced, as is the case, not to remember its history, I can imagine the impact they will it will bring upon humanity.Stanislas Berteloot 26:12 You mentioned it early on when you started talking about Tiananmen Square and, and throughout, you know, your memories I could not avoid but think of the current protest with Black Lives Matter, especially when you said, you know, country not remembering his past and its history, the protests might not have much in common, but what do you make of the current protests in the US?Cecilia Birge 26:41 I support it, you know, the current one is much, much more complex. And the Chinese immigrants community is divided. There is a group of people like myself, who strongly supported and i think that you know, I take Myself, for example, it's been a process. The racial discrimination in this country has so much history and it's so complex. And it's it's, and especially it's not just black and white as it was the case in the Civil War. It wasn't even black and white as the case as the civil rights movement anymore. It's much more embedded into our culture in to some extent, it's so much accepted, right? It was, I accepted the fact that a black person living right next to me is stopped more frequently by cops. Did I know about the fact? Yes. Did it shock me as it does today? No, it didn't. So I think it's been a process for all of us. For someone like me who's been here for 30 years, I've got a lot more opportunities to hear how black folks go through life. Anything from being killed like George Floyd did because of a $20 counterfeit or because of nothing. So regardless what it is It comes from the same place again, it's about ignorance, so, so I absolutely support it. I hope that as an country, this reminds us how important it is to talk about some very uncomfortable topics. I think part of the reason we got to where we are today, in large part is, and to some extent is the Anglo Saxon culture of sweeping that discomfort under the carpet. And let's not talk about it so that we can have, you know, a perfect image in front of everybody. But if we want to be perfect, if allowed to strive for that perfect union, we have to face the reality. And the reality in many, many ways is black and white. As an Asian American, I think we straddle the two board, two worlds, we get some of the benefits from especially the civil rights movement. We get some of the privileges from the white community, but every now and then Like the case we talked about earlier about the Trump calling a china virus, like, especially bamboo ceiling. And all of these examples are the same kind of, you know, we suffer from the same kind of decisions made by people who are ignorant about our culture and about ourselves.Stanislas Berteloot 29:20 So tell me in 2007, you became the first and only Asian American woman, Mayor. In New Jersey, you were the mayor of Montgomery, right? What can you tell me about daily and lifelong experiences of racism and discrimination against Asian American? For you personally, you know, were you impacted by that in your life in your experience?Cecilia Birge 29:50 You know, like in many immigrants when I first came to America, all I thought about was I'm just gonna work hard racism doesn't bother me, I will just hunker down, work hard and work harder. And I will make it you know, I did that I did work hard, I did work harder, and I did quote unquote, make make it right.However, through that process, I've also, I've been very lucky that I haven't experienced that extreme kind of racism. Butthrough that process, I definitely became a lot more aware and certainly recognize the racist incidents that happened to me, with or without me recognizing it, that when I was mayor in Montgomery, there were people who would come to the township committees, and monopolize the public comment, you know, timeframe, just to complain, and they are just there. They just want their own platform. And when I try to impose certain rules, just to keep the new In order, I was called a communist. Right. And before I became mayor, I was deputy mayor here. And it just happened so that the mayor at the time was my mentor and good friend is also female. So the comment from the fellow male counterpart on the township committee is now you girls can do whatever you want. Right? So, right. So there is, you know, there is, that's the thing, if we allow those kind of discrimination, whether it's based on race, or sex, or ethnicity, whatever it is, you know, there's no end to this war. So some people complain, why do we have to be politically correct all the time? It's not that we're political. We try to be politically correct all the time. It's because words have power. And as the coach of of our debate team at Princeton high school, I see That every day I hear that from my kids every day, they carry weight, they carry power. They can help us love and they can help us hate. And we all hope that that helps us love.Stanislas Berteloot 32:14 Thank you. Finally, Cecilia, I would like you to tell me what is America to you?Cecilia Birge 32:21 home!America's home. The reason I say I came to America. I think now that I know what America is like Obviously, I'm more American than Chinese in many ways, you know, very proud of my Chinese heritage. But because of my family's connection to the west, I came to recognize the way I was raised was half western half Chinese, and which have to take my family thank god left it to be rather than forcing it upon me. So to some extent, I never quite fit in in the Chinese culture, especially in the Chinese school culture. Part of my family was also separated for many years because the two countries didn't have any connections back then. So one of my uncle's finally went back to China. After marrying my aunt, it was the first time we met in the 80s. And then he, he met me and you know, for a Chinese American who left China for so long, they really didn't function very well. So I was the tour guide, assigned by my family to help him out to take him to different places to around the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, so we got to know each other. And at the end of the trip, he said, I think 'this girl will be happier in America, I'm gonna bring you to America'. So that changed my life and I'm eternally grateful for that. And he spent I think that for someone like me who enjoys challenges, who enjoys doing different things in life, who tried to be as thoughtful as I can be. There's really no better place on earth than America for me. And not to mention now that I have four kids. And especially, you know, we were talking earlier that you and I both have a high school graduate, witnessing how they have transformed from the little baby that I held on day one, when I literally touched love to the young ladies and young men that they have become, and the transformation that they have gone through, both physically, academically and socially, emotionally, and for them to be filled with so much passion and love and kindness, and have so much expectations for the world. I really can't imagine any other country can do it better than then what we have done and our job for our generation as an educator in this country, is to make sure that tradition continues.Stanislas Berteloot 35:01 And I see, talking of kids, I see your kids coming and waking up in the kitchen behind you. And that's quite all right. Thank you.Cecilia Birge 35:11 Interview coronas via COVID-19 style.Stanislas Berteloot 35:15 Oh, yeah, absolutely. Well, Cecilia Birge, thank you so much for your time today.Cecilia Birge 35:21 Thank you. Thank you for having me. 

Amanda SmithMs. United States Amanda dedicates herself to improving health and nutrition awareness in Hawaii and beyond. She is devoted to sharing her vision of sustainable, healthy cooking practices with kids and families through school programs, private cooking lessons, social media, public speaking events, television, radio, and podcast appearances.Amanda’s natural charisma, poise under pressure, strength of character, and belief in herself and her Menehune Chef (little chef) program recently led to her being selected to the prestigious Ms. United States title. This tremendous honor is providing her a larger platform to be able to share her passion on a global scale, and expand the number of families that she is able to help through Menehune Chef.Amanda discovered her love for food and interest in nutrition at a very young age, quickly developing a skill set in cooking and recipe-writing that would provide the foundation for success as an entrepreneur in the field of her passion. Amanda added a degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of Hawai’i to provide the remaining skills necessary to create, develop, facilitate, and enhance a first-rate culinary and nutrition education programs. Amanda continuously expands the Menehune Chef program curriculum, staying current on health issues and expanding into areas such as life-skills after identifying a need in her students.The Menehune Chef team was designed to be able to scale globally, and educate local communities all over the world on how to best find and utilize locally-sourced food, enjoy shared values of family connection, and expand youth engagement. Amanda is the proud mother of two beautiful children, and currently resides in HI. Reach out to Amanda on social media:https://www.menehunechef.orgFB - @amandasmith @menehunechef @themsunitedstatesIG - @amandasmithtvhost @menehunechef @officialmsunitedstatesAmanda HorganMs. Woman United States Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduating from Princeton High School, Amandawent on to attend Kent State University where she was a member of thewomen's golf team. She graduated with her Bachelor of Arts degree in Englishand moved to Los Angeles, California in 2006. Amanda has a love for learningand a drive to take on challenges and try new things. Since moving to LA, she hasworked in television, radio, fashion, real estate and currently works in finance as a portfolio administrator at Howard Capital Management. She recently decided to go back to school and is currently studying to become a certified financial planner. Determined to get back in shape and do more to give back to her community,Amanda started her platform, Fit With A Purpose at the beginning of 2018. FitWith A Purpose aims to create an all-inclusive community that encouragesothers to set their own health, fitness and service goals.Amanda serves as a team captain for many charitable walks and runsthroughout the year, encouraging others to give back and raise awareness whilealso getting up and moving. Amanda currently resides in the city of Hawthorne with her husband Anthony and their Puggle, Chunks.Reach out to Amanda on social media:www.fitwithapurpose.orgFB - @mswomanus2019 @fitwithapurpose @mswomanunitedstatespgeantIG - @mswomanus2019 @fitwithapurpose @officialmswomanunitedstatesSupport the show (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beauty-call-podcast/id1462542236)

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On this week's Got Your Eers On?, we catch up on the final WV helmet tournament matchup between Preston High School and Princeton High School, Coalfields & Co is kicking of another WV high school related tournament, the Big 12 voted to allow players to begin workouts on June 15th, Matt Wells wants you to buy / renew your football season tickets, you can buy a Coliseum seat, we have a new BTF, and Can’t Believe My ‘Eers!  Join us for all this and more on this week's episode of Got Your Eers On?...!

On the latest Just Like Bruddas Podcast, the Bruddas welcome Greene Central head football and track and field coach Jay Wilson! Wilson, an alumnus of Princeton High School and North Carolina A&T, played for the Aggies from 1996-99 and was a part of the MEAC title winning Aggies team in 1999. Wilson talked about his biggest influences in the coaching game, his first experience as a varsity head coach, the first victory of his varsity football career (an 8-6 win over Eastern Wayne with the Rams only points coming on a defensive touchdown), and the three exchange plenty of laughs along the way. You can follow coach Wilson on Twitter @Kal07Que and on Instagram @CountryBoy88. We Journal Great Sports is a multimedia journalism entity that covers high school sports in Wayne, Johnston, and Greene County, North Carolina. 20 high schools reside in those three counties this websites purpose is to connect with communities while telling the communities' and athletes' stories. This site will not have any subscription fees. Content and ideas will be will be accepted from people throughout the community, so please send your requests, compliments, and criticism to wjgsports@gmail.com. You can follow We Journal Great Sports on the following social media platforms: Twitter: @WJG_Sports, Instagram: @wjgsports, Facebook: WJG Sports, Website: wejournalgreatsports.com/wp, and subscribe to the YouTube channel: WJG Sports You can also follow Kai Jones on Twitter/Instagram @YGARTTD or @MMJKaiJones and Laieke Abebe @StrikaNation24_ and @LMAPreps (Twitter only) for the latest articles, photos, and news pertaining to high school sports in North Carolina and a plethora of other sports topics. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Days after the Ohio High School Athletic Association canceled its spring sports season, the focus turns to the several questions surrouding the upcoming fall season. OHSAA executive director Jerry Snodgrass joined the WCPO High School Insider podcast this week to discuss the status of high school sports during this coronavirus outbreak and how the state association to taking steps to prepare for this summer. Snodgrass discussed the OHSAA's decision Monday to cancel the spring sports season after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine decided to close schools for the remainder of the spring. Snodgrass also discussed OHSAA regulations entering this summer, eligibility concerns for the fall season and the status of the 2020 state football finals venue. Also, Princeton High School made significant headlines with the hiring this week of Bryan Wyant as its boys basketball coach. Wyant discussed taking over the Vikings' program and what he's most proud of during his 12 seasons at Hughes.

Guest Name and Bio: Dr. Aly Cohen Dr. Aly Cohen is a board certified rheumatologist, integrative medicine specialist,and environmental health expert specializing in arthritis, immune system disorders and women’s health. Dr. Cohen received her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania. She went on to medical training at Hahnemann UniversityHospital School of Medicine in Philadelphia, and completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Cohen continued her specialist training in rheumatology and autoimmune diseases at Montefiore Hospital/Albert Einstein University Hospital in the Bronx, New York. Dr. Cohen is currently in private practice in Princeton, New Jersey. Her practice, that she founded in 2011, Integrative Rheumatology Associates P.C., focuses on both traditional western medical management of rheumatologic ailments, as well as integrative options for total “wellness”, such as biofeedback, acupuncture, cognitive therapy, diet and exercise counseling, environmental toxin counseling, smoking cessation, stress management and sleep evaluations. Dr. Cohen is trained in medical acupuncture from the Helms Institute at UCLA and Environmental Medicine from Dr. Andrew Weil and the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. In 2012, she was honored as the recipient of the Jones/Lovell Rheumatology Scholarship at the Center for Integrative Medicine in Tucson, Arizona. She has studied and workedalongside Dr. Andrew Weil and his colleagues in the field of integrative medicine over the past two years. Dr. Cohen regularly lectures on healthy dietary and integrative medicine techniques to her patients and the community. Dr. Cohen’s strong interest and work in the area of environmental chemical exposure and health lead her to a collaboration with the Environmental Working Group (EWG.org) to create a CME accredited presentation on endocrine disrupting chemicals and their relationship to human health, designed specifically for physicians, nurses and other health professionals. She lectures nationally on this topic to communities, academic institutions and medical schools. She has been a consultant for major corporations such as Knowledge Universe to help reduce the chemical exposure of infants and toddlers in over 2,000 KinderCare Daycares across the United States. Currently, she is working as a medical investigator in the Paulsboro, New Jersey train derailment in 2012 that spilled thousands of gallons of polyvinyl chloride. In addition to the education of adults on this topic, Dr. Cohen has extended her message to the education of young people. She is currently piloting a program at Princeton High School to integrate environmental health information into the current health curriculum. She was chosen to present for TEDx Cape May in October, 2019 on “Innovating High School Health Curriculum”. Dr. Cohen was honored to speak at NAEYC’s 2014 National Institute for Early Childhood Professional Development. She completed co-editing/authoring the “Integrative Environmental Medicine” text, for the Weil/Oxford University Press academic book series, which was published in 2017. She has contracted with Oxford to write the consumer text, “Non-Toxic: The Essential Guide to Living Healthy in a Chemical World”, due out early 2020. She was awarded the 2015 New Jersey Healthcare Heroes Award for Education, voted Top Docs NJ for 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 by her medical colleagues, voted Top Doc Suburban Life Magazine 2017, voted America’s Top Doctors by Castle Connolly, and was honored with the 2016 Burton L. Eichler Humanitarian Award for her work in environmental health education and curriculum. In 2012, Dr. Cohen created The Smart Human LLC. (TheSmartHuman.com), to educate colleagues and the community on the potential health issues from exposure to everyday chemicals. She performs in-home chemical evaluations (“chemical-proofing”), lectures to schools and camps, consults with corporations and is a legal medical export for chemical exposure cases. She has partnered with a recognized educator to create tailored environmental health and wellness curricula for schools nationally. She is currently on faculty and writing environmental health curriculum for the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM). She has a very active social media platform, TheSmartHuman.com, Facebook: The Smart Human, and Twitter/Instagram: @TheSmartHuman, and posts practical tips and health information regularly. Dr. Cohen is a regular health contributor to radio and news broadcasts, such as Fox 5 NY, and lectures nationally and internationally on various health topics including integrative medicine, autoimmune disease/inflammation, health effects of everyday chemicals and cell phone safety. She works as a writer for TLC.com, EverydayHealth.com, WebMD.com, and Women’s Running Magazine. She is an interviewer and producer for children and adult health programs on an array of network and cable TV channels. She is also a published medical author. Dr. Cohen was recently asked by actress Fran Drescher to join the medical advisory board for “Cancer Schmancer”, her cancer prevention foundation, and Dr. Cohen was keynote speaker at the 3rd Annual Cancer Schmancer Health Summit in 2017. She was a featured speaker at the 2018  Nutrition& Health Conference, with Dr. Andrew Weil and colleagues, and presented at the  2018 American Psychiatric Association’s national meeting on environmental exposures and their effects on mental illness. Most recently, she presented, “Integrative Rheumatology: Western and Eastern Approaches for Rheumatologic Illness”, in Cape Town South Africa and continues to lecture on the holistic prevention and management of variety of autoimmune diseases. She will be lecturing with Dr. Deepak Chopra and colleagues in the Fall of 2019 at the annual Academy of Integrative Health and Wellness (AIHM) in San Diego. Dr. Cohen is an avid runner, participates in area triathlons and ran in the 2009 New York City Marathon, raising thousands of dollars for The Lupus Foundation. She lives with her husband, two young sons, and several happy pets, in Central, New Jersey.   What you will learn from this episode: How to start reducing toxic exposures in your life and environment What resources are out there to help you figure out what is toxic and what is not What kind of water is best to drink How toxins can impact our hormones and how we feel The importance of educating our children about the environment and toxins from an early age   How to learn more about our guest:   Websites and Social Media:    http://www.TheSmartHuman.com www.AlyCohenMD.com LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Instagram Please enjoy, share, rate and review our podcast and help us bring the message about precision health care to the world!

I am Stan Berteloot and this is Back in America. Today I am speaking via Skype with Princeton High School Principal Jessica Baxter.Jessica, as most school leaders across the globe, is faced with the challenging task of adjusting to the reality of the Coronavirus pandemic.When the school closed, initially for two weeks on March 16 putting in place remote learning was only part of what had to be done. The staff at PHS had to ensure that every kid had access to a computer and the Internet. Curriculums had to be adjusted for kids to learn online.Strategies had to be put in place to ensure well being of students.Jessica, when we prepared this interview you told me that you are reassessing and re-planning what you do, not day to day, but minute to minute.Thank you for taking the time to speak with Back in America and to share your experience keeping Princeton High School strong for the students and their families.Jessica's book suggestionsDaring Greatly, by Brown, Brene, Ph.D. Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identityby Winona Guo, Priya Vulchi

On the newest episode of the Just Like Bruddas Podcast, the Bruddas went LIVE for the first time in the history of the show. Kai and Laieke were on site at Princeton High School ahead of the huge rivalry game between the Bulldogs and the Rosewood Eagles. The Carolina 1-A conference championship will be on the line when Robert Britt the Eagles (9-1) travel down US HWY. 70 to take on Travis Gaster and the undefeated Bulldogs (9-0). We welcomed Andrew Stevens and Averil Williams from WBGR (98.3 FM on your radio dial) to talk about this contest and all of the other games taking place in Wayne County. We interviewed them and they interviewed us making for what was an excellent show! You can follow them @wgbrgmeoftheweek and listen to their call of the Princeton-Rosewood game on 98.3 FM and streaming live on GoldsboroDailyNews.com. We Journal Great Sports is a multimedia journalism entity that covers high school sports in Wayne, Johnston, and Greene County, North Carolina. 20 high schools reside in those three counties this websites purpose is to connect with communities while telling the communities' and athletes' stories. This site will not have any subscription fees. Content and ideas will be will be accepted from people throughout the community, so please send your requests, compliments, and criticism to wjgsports@gmail.com. You can follow We Journal Great Sports on the following social media platforms: Twitter: @WJG_Sports, Instagram: @wjgsports, Facebook: WJG Sports, Website: wejournalgreatsports.com/wp, and subscribe to the YouTube channel: WJG Sports You can also follow Kai Jones on Twitter/Instagram @YGARTTD or @MMJKaiJones and Laieke Abebe @StrikaNation24_ or @LMAPreps (Twitter only) for the latest articles, photos, and news pertaining to high school sports in North Carolina and a plethora of other sports topics. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Editor’s note: This is the final profile of Marching Orders, season 1. Read previous profiles at ThisWeekNEWS.com/MarchingOrders. Craig Morin, 30, of Columbus was a U.S. Army officer in Afghanistan in 2013 and 2014, advising the Afghan National Army during Operation Enduring Freedom. Morin was born in Cincinnati and grew up in the nearby suburban village of Evendale – what he called “typical suburban life growing up” – as the youngest of three brothers.  While growing up during the military deployments of the century’s first decade, Morin said, he developed a “desire to serve and participate in what I thought was going to be the defining event of my generation.” “I was looking for an adventure, and I had a strong desire to do something physical. I wasn’t ready at 22 years old to sit behind a desk,” he said. After attending Princeton High School, he attended Ohio State University, graduating in 2011 with a degree in philosophy, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant through the Army ROTC program. He said he chose a philosophy major because he was interested in studying ethical decision-making, which would be important for a role in the military. Morin quenched some of that thirst for adventure during airborne school, part of his training for becoming an Army Ranger.  His first parachute jump was the easiest, he said. “I think you’re so excited, yet the adrenaline is going so hard that you’re not particularly aware of all the things that could potentially go wrong. By the time my last jump came around, I was very much aware of those things,” he said. Although he and the soldiers carried no military gear during their first jumps, Morin was loaded with equipment when he made his final jump, which was at night. That jump was a little scarier by comparison, he said, but he enjoyed the experience, watching the silhouettes of other parachutes around him. On active duty as a platoon leader, he wasn’t expecting to be deployed to Afghanistan – until he saw most of his battalion had been deployed. Morin was in the part of the battalion that had deployed three months later, he said. He was told he would ship out in seven days and had four days to visit his family. In Afghanistan, he was stationed at Forward Operating Base Tagab in Kapisa Province, with the 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division.  “I worked on a small advising team that was responsible for mentoring, training and coaching the Afghan National Army,” he said. Partnering with host-nation forces comes with a host of struggles, such as building and maintaining relationships, he said. “My primary counterpart was an Afghan company commander. This man was a hero to his men and had spent his adolescent and adult life fighting the Taliban,” Morin said. “I was a young lieutenant from another country with no combat experience. Navigating that credibility gap was vital, and maintaining rapport with him was the most important thing I would do while I was there. “Together, we would plan and execute various patrols. It was my job to help with the command and control of those patrols and also help integrate U.S. assets – air support, medical evacuation, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance,” he said. The Afghan company commander was an aggressive fighter, Morin said. “In the Afghan culture, the idea of pride is a lot more important. So there were times he’d seek out the opportunity to kind of go toe to toe with the Taliban and assume some risks that, if I was commanding forces on the ground, I would not have necessarily done that,” he said. Maintaining the right relationship with the Afghan commander was vital, Morin said. They had disagreements, he said, adding that he occasionally had to use motivational tactics. He also had to accept some of the risks, he said, because if he didn’t have a good relationship with the commander, the U.S. unit that succeeded him wouldn’t either.  The Afghan commander’s approach, Morin said, was tailored to a longer, broader war, and his subordinates followed his example. The terrain surrounding the base was a flat plain next to steep, high peaks, Morin said. It was brutally hot in summer and bitterly cold in winter. “Christmas was actually a day I look back on pretty fondly,” he said. Bad weather had grounded air support, so no patrols were underway. He played Monopoly and watched movies all day. It was the first time he watched “It’s a Wonderful Life.” As the U.S. footprint was downsized in Afghanistan, Morin’s unit was transferred to Bagram Airfield, a facility so large it had a bus line running from one side to another. One day when his team’s lead operations adviser, a captain, was out for a run, he spotted two Afghans trying to break into a fenced-in motor pool, Morin said. The captain noticed bomb-making materials when he confronted the pair, resulting in a hand-to-hand fight in which he killed one of the men, injured the other’s throat and sustained wounds. The second would-be bomber was apprehended at the base gate, identified by his throat injury. Morin’s own unit left Afghanistan without sustaining any casualties, he said. Morin said he had a feeling of isolation when adjusting to civilian life. After years of training and the Army, he was given a week of training on the transition to being a civilian, most of it focusing on job coaching and building a resume. Several of the men who were in his company in Afghanistan since have committed suicide, he said. Morin said he has been in therapy for three years and “couldn’t recommend it more.” “I’m only now seeing the real benefit of that process,” he said. Adjusting to civilian life requires finding a way to take care of oneself in a meaningful way, he said. Morin is a project manager for Hot Chicken Takeover, a Columbus-based restaurant chain specializing in Nashville-style hot chicken. The company has a “fair chance” policy and employs people who have been homeless or incarcerated or who have had drug problems – “people who in other environments might feel a sense of isolation,” Morin said. Working with others who are trying to move beyond their past has been helpful to his own transition, he said. Morin’s decorations include the U.S. Army’s Ranger Tab, Expert Infantryman Badge, Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Badge, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Army Commendation Medal (with oak-leaf cluster), Army Achievement Medal (with three oak-leaf clusters), National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon and NATO Medal. This podcast was hosted and produced by Scott Hummel, ThisWeek Community News assistant managing editor, digital. This profile was written by Paul Comstock.

The Ohio high school football season is back. In one of the most anticipated seasons in recent memory, there are plenty of storylines entering Friday night. FirstStarFootballReport.com founder Dave Berk, a longtime area high school football analyst, joins the WCPO High School Insider to discuss his impressions of the top teams and players to watch this fall. WCPO’s Keenan Singleton joins the discussion and an offers a behind-the-scenes perspective about Hypeville High, a new WCPO docuseries about the Princeton High School football team.

Madysson Morris, Brady Trantham, and Chisholm Holland react to the Thunder's 23rd pick selecting Darius Bazley from Princeton High School. This podcast comes directly after Sam Presti's post-draft night presser with raw reactions and slight raised voices. Enjoy!

Lance talks with MLB free agent and the Pride of the University of Cincinnati and Princeton High School, Josh Harrison. Josh talks about his upcoming baseball camp in Cincinnati.

On this very special episode, Jack and Sean sit down with Princeton High School baseball captain Paul Cooke and DVUA umpire Bobby Ricciardi to recount an incident between the two this year.  The sportsmanship shown by Paul is so outstanding that it had to be celebrated, so the guys took them to dinner to talk about it!  Your heart will melt and you may shed a tear!  Keep the conversation going by emailing us at podcast@osipfoundation.org.  Comment on www.facebook.com/osipfoundation or on Twitter @osipfoundation #howyouplaythegame.

Ohio State women's basketball coach Kevin McGuff discusses why former Ohio State and Princeton High School standout Kelsey Mitchell will transition well to the WNBA. Cincinnati Public Schools Athletics Manager Josh Hardin discusses the upcoming Jackie Robinson Weekend this Saturday.

Darrick Ware is the Offensive Coordinator and Assistant Head Coach at Princeton High School in Texas. He is also the co-creator of a character curriculum called A Football Journey. In my conversation with Coach Ware we talk about the curriculum, how to install the curriculum into your program, and lot of other topics as well. The post Culture Coordinator Podcast Episode 008: Darrick Ware appeared first on Culture Coordinator.

In this episode, CEO of Getting Smart, Tom Vander Ark interviews Mario Basora, Superintendent of Yellow Springs School in Ohio. Mario explains his journey from being an average student on the West Coast to becoming a successful Superintendent in Ohitical pedagogy, new tech schools, strategic planning, and the various projects children at his school have o. As well as learning about Mario's background, Mario and Tom discuss project-based learning, critaken pride in.   Mario was born in the Bronx, New York, but raised by his single mother in Santa Ana, California from a young age, along with his sister. Growing up was tough — he lived in a poor neighborhood and had no father-figure — and he was an uninspired C-Student all the way from Elementary to High School. After High School, he went to College, down in San Diego, for a year but ended up dropping out and coming back to Orange County and enrolling in a community college. It was while in his second year of community college that he had an epiphany from several inspirational professors: He had to become the change he wanted to see in the world. After that, he traveled between Northern Kentucky as a camp counselor and Ohio to earn his Dual Bachelor's Degree in Political Science at Cal State Fullerton, and Social Studies Degree in Northern Kentucky. He then began teaching in Cincinnati at Princeton High School while earning his Master's Degree in Educational Leadership at the Miami University. Presently, Mario Basora's main focus is on Yellow Springs School — where he is Superintendent — to continue to work on strategic planning and develop an innovative teaching model based around the idea of PBL (project-based learning) with the help of his fellow staff, teachers, and students.   Key Takeaways: [:42] Tom welcomes Mario and Mario gives more insight into his background of growing up as a C-Student. [3:14] Mario's wake up call: Becoming the difference he wanted to see in the world. [3:38] Becoming interested in education through several inspirational professors and turning his life around. [4:22] The 180° that occurred from the combination of ‘getting serious' and powerful learning experiences. [5:45] Mario getting to Northern Kentucky, becoming a camp counselor, earning his Dual Bachelor's Degree, and beginning to work at Princeton High School in Cincinnati. [7:07] Mario's passion for student engagement and becoming enlightened to critical pedagogy. [8:39] Starting out as a Principal, visiting a New Tech School in Indiana, and becoming even more inspired to pioneer the sort of school he would want all kids to go to. [10:55] Receiving the opportunity to work at Yellow Springs School, working on the strategic planning process from scratch, and the bend towards project-based learning. [12:42] Identifying the “big rocks” in the planning; Creating a school with a new, innovative teaching model. [14:02] Tom asks Mario to unpack who was driving the direction of their new strategic plan. Tom describes the consensus the community had on their plan (for project-based learning). [15:47] Tom asks how Mario plans to make the project-based learning successful in Yellow Springs. [18:03] Mario discusses the training they've had: Buck, High Tech High, as well as visiting expeditionary learning schools and multiple High Tech High Schools. [18:55] Tom and Mario take a look at projects at each level. First, Elementary. [22:28] Mario outlines several projects at the 7th Grade level, and the recognition they've gotten from the community. [27:32] Mario talks about the project, ‘Is it Too Late to Save the Planet?' for the High School students. [30:40] Mario's advice to those who want to learn more about PBL (project-based learning).   Mentioned in This Episode: New Tech Network Buck Training High Tech High Trouble Don't Last, by Shelley Pearsall   Get Involved: Check out the blog on GettingSmart.com. Find the GettingSmart podcast on iTunes, leave a review and subscribe.   Twitter-Specific Quotes:   “No one is going to change your life but you. You have got to be the one that makes a difference in your world.” — Mario Basora   “I wanted teaching to be an opportunity to really, really help kids learn and do great things with their lives.” — Mario Basora   “One of the things I found with PBL is our teachers are tapping into their creativity more than ever.” — Mario Basora   “Having teachers as part of the planning process and design process from inception — I think — is critical.” — Mario Basora   “We want teachers to take risks … to move from a culture of ‘failing is not an option,' to one of ‘failing forward.'” — Mario Basora   “Teachers have to be allowed to take risks if they're ever going to be innovative and change our culture.” — Mario Basora   “In order to get [education] to move forward, it's going to require a cultural shift towards innovation and risk-taking.” — Mario Basora   Quotes:   “I felt like I had a spark that happened with me in College and it made a difference in my life. I felt like I really wanted to be able to do the same for other kids and I wanted to really, truly make a difference.” — Mario Basora   “If this is the kind of school I want my kids to go to … I should do whatever I can to make this the kind of school that all kids can go to.” — Mario Basora   “Bringing teachers… in as part of the planning process [for a new strategic learning plan] … is critically important to success.” — Mario Basora  

Last week, we began our new summer series, entitled The Search Begins. This series is dedicated to those of you—primarily the parents of juniors—who are starting the serious college hunt now. In Episode 77, we talked about the number of college applications your teenager would ideally be making in the fall. While a bit dependent on what your teenager is interested in studying and on how broad a range of college options you all want to consider, we recommended between 8 and 12 applications—after carefully thinking through and winnowing down the options. Recently, I read an interesting perspective on college applications and admissions in The Hechinger Report, which is usually a good source of informative pieces on education. This opinion piece was written by Claire Schultz, a senior at Princeton High School in New Jersey. This fall, Claire will be off to University College London, a public research university in the U.K., founded in 1826 to serve students previously excluded from higher education and boasting alumni from Alexander Graham Bell to Francis Crick (a co-discoverer of the DNA double helix) to all four members of Coldplay, a little band your kids know, who met there as freshmen. In her piece, Claire talks about two issues, offering one solution that is obvious in the title: “American colleges need to end admissions “Hunger Games” and take a page from the U.K. playbook instead.” It worries me that our high school students feel as though they need to solve our U.S. college application and admission problem, but it’s impressive at the same time.  1. Too Many Applications Claire talks about a topic we have addressed more than once recently at USACollegeChat: the growing number of college applications being submitted, which leads to the increasing selectivity of colleges and lower admission rates, which in turn leads to more applications being made, and so on and so on and so on. This process is, for many students—especially for bright students applying to first-rate colleges—becoming the “vicious cycle” that Claire describes. Claire says, “I took a step to remove myself from the system, and applied to schools in the U.K.” Noting that the U.K. system is different from ours, she believes that we can learn something from it. Here is her description of the system in the U.K.: …[Y]ou can apply to Oxford or Cambridge (not both), and a total of five schools. As you apply to a specific subject, you write one single personal statement explaining why you are qualified for the course; you may have to complete a subsequent interview, again on academic merit. There is a set of grade-based entry requirements you will have to make at the end of your senior year, but that’s it. (quoted from the article) Why not have the Common Application, accepted by over 600 colleges today, limit the number of applications a student can submit from its website, Claire asks? She believes that some students are applying just to apply and aren’t even really interested in some of the colleges they are applying to. She offers her view of college acceptance time at Princeton High School: For so many top schools, I saw the same students admitted over and over again. I saw other students who were tremendously qualified not get into any of them. I saw some people not get into schools that would have been a terrific match, which they would have attended in a heartbeat, while others who were accepted saw them as safety nets and never really planned on attending. So why do we let this happen? You could argue something about The American Way and ‘freedom’ or ‘liberty,’ but all it really is is a college admission ‘Hunger Games’—dangerously competitive and only the most prepared survive. (quoted from the article) Unfortunately, probably true—especially at top-ranked high schools. Claire proposes that applications be capped at 10—a number I like pretty well inasmuch as our recommendation last week was 8 to 12. Frankly, I am glad that our recommendation will seem sensible to a kid who has thought as much about this as Claire has. Of course, capping the number of Common App college applications won’t entirely solve the problem because students can apply to other colleges that do not accept the Common App. But her point is still clear: Control the number of applications to optimize positive admissions decisions for everyone. 2. Is It a College or an “Experience”? So, let’s look at the second issue that Claire brings up, and I think it is even more intriguing. In describing her applications to U.K. colleges, Claire writes this: There are no essays asking about ‘a journey’ or what celebrity you’d like to have to lunch, no extracurricular jumping through hoops. Plain and simple, are you good at what you do? . . . I’d want to see the focus of the college admissions process brought back to school, if only a little bit. (quoted from the article)  It’s refreshing, I guess, to see a high school student who wishes that college admissions were more about how well you did in your academic studies and exams and how well you can write about what study you plan to pursue in college and why you are well equipped to do that. On the other hand, some U.S. colleges also ask students to write an essay about that topic—though it is typically one of the supplemental essays in an application that has several essays to complete. The difference is, in the U.K., that is the essay. Claire continues with these observations: When I applied to U.S. schools, I wrote essays about my biggest fears and hopes and dreams, I was sold student centers and dorm rooms and meal plans. Underneath all of the football games and paraphernalia, I was not being shown a school, I was being sold an experience. These colleges seemed to care less about me as a student than me as a well-rounded, ‘holistic’ individual. When I toured schools in England, I was shown classrooms and students studying in libraries rather than well-polished amenities (most students lived in private housing and cooked for themselves, anyway). (quoted from the article) Well, that couldn’t be more interesting. It recalls for me a comment that my husband made more than once as we were looking at colleges for our children. He used to say, “Are we choosing a college or a country club?” He was responding to what Claire calls “well-polished amenities.” Now, I am going to be the first to say that I personally like a well-polished amenity or two. I am okay with great-looking dorms (my daughter certainly had that at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus—suite-style dorms so nice that my husband and I would have been happy to live there, within spitting distance of New York City’s magnificent Lincoln Center). And I am fond of attractive sorority and fraternity houses, too (I lived in one), though I fear that they might be part of what Claire calls “paraphernalia.” And who doesn’t love a good football game, Claire—and baseball game and basketball game and soccer game, etc.? Yes, I love college sports, too (and wrote about them for my college newspaper). Nonetheless, I do like the idea that Claire saw students at work (and, by “work,” I mean studying) when she visited schools in the U.K.—and that she was impressed by that. Of course, many of our U.S. colleges try to get prospective applicants into a classroom to observe a class firsthand, too—and they should, according to Claire. So, where does all this leave Claire and me? I guess it leaves us here, as Claire concluded about her U.K. visits: It was nice to see what I’d be paying huge amounts of money for—not a four-year party, but a school with actual classes and exams. (quoted from the article) Parents, I am sure that you, too, would like to think that you are paying for a school—for the professors, for the instructional facilities, and even for the intellectual camaraderie of the students. Do you want kids to be happy at college? Of course you do. But do you also—and more significantly—want them to revel in what they are learning and believe that they are learning from the best and brightest professors anywhere? I bet you do. Claire’s view suggests that, during the recruitment of new freshmen, U.S. colleges—at least some of them, anyway—have tipped the scale a bit too far toward “well-polished amenities.” She would like them to tip the scale back a bit toward “actual classes.” So, U.S. colleges, are you listening—just in case you want to pick up a few students like Claire (and, frankly, what college wouldn’t)? Think about what you are showing off to your prospective candidates. Are you a party venue or a school? If I were Claire’s mother, I would be proud of her thoughtful opinions. If you have a teenager at home—one who might be tipped himself or herself a bit too far toward looking for the “well-polished amenities”—tell them about Claire. You can probably find her next fall in the library in London. (But, Claire, don’t forget to have tea at the V&A—London’s unparalleled Victoria & Albert Museum—because that is unforgettable and you can bring a book to read.) Ask your questions or share your feedback by… Leaving a comment on the show notes for this episode at http://usacollegechat.org/episode78 Calling us at (516) 900-6922 to record a question on our USACollegeChat voicemail if you want us to answer your question live on our podcast Connect with us through… Subscribing to our podcast on Google Play Music, iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn Liking us on Facebook or following us on Twitter Reviewing parent materials we have available at www.policystudies.org Inquiring about our consulting services if you need individualized help Reading Regina's new blog, Parent Chat with Regina, or checking out our book, How To Find the Right College, which is now available for sale as a Kindle ebook or as a paperback workbook

Today on Hempresent Vivian McPeak is joined by Brendan Hill, Paper and Leaf Co-Founder and drummer of the Grammy Award-winning rock and blues band Blues Traveler. Paper and Leaf is the only recreational cannabis retail store located in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Co-owners Brendan Hill and Steven Kessler hand select the highest quality growers for consistent, top shelf products. Paper and Leaf believe education and cannabis go hand in hand in lessening the stigma against marijuana. All marijuana retail products of Paper and Leaf include gram bags, ounces, buds, edibles, topicals, pipes, and oils.Brendan Hill is one of the original members of Blues Traveler. In 1983, while attending school at Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey, Hill met Blues Traveler harmonica player John Popper. Together, they formed the predecessor to Blues Traveler, Blues Band. This band played mostly at parties and saw numerous bassists and guitarists come and go. In 1987, with the addition of Chan Kinchla on guitar and Bobby Sheehan on bass, they officially renamed themselves "Blues Traveler". After graduating from Princeton High School, Brendan (along with John and Bobby) enrolled in The New School for Social Research to study music. Hill currently lives on Bainbridge Island, WA and owns a retail marijuana store.