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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2021 3:34

A public health expert thinks officials have dismissed the need for tighter internal border controls and may fail to stop the spread of Covid-19 in Christchurch as a result. Two unvaccinated people have tested positive in Ōtautahi after one of them returned from Auckland. Professor Nick Wilson of Otago University told Morning Report the border rules for level three areas, which only require proof of a Covid-19 test in the last week, are far too loose. "The only requirement is to have a PCR negative test within the seven days prior to travel, and a lot of us have been actually caught saying that this is way too lax and that there should be a requirement for people to be fully vaccinated, and even to have a rapid antigen test at the border crossing point." Professor Wilson said a requirement to be vaccinated to cross the border would make a lot of sense, but should have happened weeks ago at the start of the Auckland outbreak. He said it would be reasonable to give people three to four weeks' notice and then bring it in. "People in the trucking industry have had months to get vaccinated, and this would really focus people's minds. "And we really do want to avoid this type of Christchurch situation happening in the coming months because we really want the rest of the country to catch up with vaccination levels." Morning Report asked Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins to discuss this topic on the show on Friday but he was unavailable.

Covid-19: Auckland border should have mandatory vaccination - Nick Wilson

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2021 3:34

A public health expert thinks officials have dismissed the need for tighter internal border controls and may fail to stop the spread of Covid-19 in Christchurch as a result. Two unvaccinated people have tested positive in Ōtautahi after one of them returned from Auckland. Professor Nick Wilson of Otago University told Morning Report the border rules for level three areas, which only require proof of a Covid-19 test in the last week, are far too loose. "The only requirement is to have a PCR negative test within the seven days prior to travel, and a lot of us have been actually caught saying that this is way too lax and that there should be a requirement for people to be fully vaccinated, and even to have a rapid antigen test at the border crossing point." Professor Wilson said a requirement to be vaccinated to cross the border would make a lot of sense, but should have happened weeks ago at the start of the Auckland outbreak. He said it would be reasonable to give people three to four weeks' notice and then bring it in. "People in the trucking industry have had months to get vaccinated, and this would really focus people's minds. "And we really do want to avoid this type of Christchurch situation happening in the coming months because we really want the rest of the country to catch up with vaccination levels." Morning Report asked Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins to discuss this topic on the show on Friday but he was unavailable.

Covid-19: Expert wants tighter border around Auckland

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2021 4:24

Public health expert Professor Nick Wilson is calling on the government to tighten the border below and above Auckland. There were 56 cases in the city yesterday, the highest since September 1st, and three cases in Waikato and one in the Bay of Plenty. Cabinet will today decide on its next move with restrictions. Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says they will take into account the most up-to-date case numbers, and unlinked cases - there were 19 yesterday. One modeller is predicting Auckland's daily Covid-19 case numbers could reach triple figures by the end of the month. Professor Wilson, from the University of Otago, says only those doing the most essential jobs should be allowed out and they should have to stop for a short time at the border for a rapid antigen test.

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Covid-19: Expert wants tighter border around Auckland

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2021 4:24

Public health expert Professor Nick Wilson is calling on the government to tighten the border below and above Auckland. There were 56 cases in the city yesterday, the highest since September 1st, and three cases in Waikato and one in the Bay of Plenty. Cabinet will today decide on its next move with restrictions. Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says they will take into account the most up-to-date case numbers, and unlinked cases - there were 19 yesterday. One modeller is predicting Auckland's daily Covid-19 case numbers could reach triple figures by the end of the month. Professor Wilson, from the University of Otago, says only those doing the most essential jobs should be allowed out and they should have to stop for a short time at the border for a rapid antigen test.

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Do PT ao Bolsonaro, o professor Wilson Gomes explica o momento político do Brasil

Conversas com o Meio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2021 70:09

No 'Conversas com o Meio' desta semana, o professor Wilson Gomes faz um panorama do cenário atual do país. Da operação Lava Jato, ao antipetismo até a ascensão do presidente Jair Bolsonaro e as ameaças de golpe de Estado. O Brasil tem conserto?

Getting involved

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2021 26:40

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused uncertainty and stress for so many university students. So how can universities support and reach out to students? And how do students build up their resilience? Professor Sarah Wilson is the Pro Vice-Chancellor Student Life at the University of Melbourne and an internationally recognised expert in cognitive neuroscience and clinical neuropsychology. She says a sense of belonging and connection is crucial for mental health and wellbeing. “We know that social friendships, even just a brief hello with the local barista while we are ordering a coffee, social contacts, connections are in fact the things that alter our mood and protect our mental health because they are associated with increases in our sense of wellbeing.” And while COVID-19 has made that challenging, people should take the opportunity to reconnect as restrictions ease. “Our sense of belonging and connection and your sense of mental health and wellbeing depends on you stepping out of that door and not stepping back in, but hopping on the tram, or on your bike, or in your car... and being part of the community.” Professor Wilson also says it's important to get used to the “idea of change” as we move through lockdown and pandemic restrictions. “Having in our toolkit, methods for starting to learn to live with this virus and accepting that this fluctuating pattern might be part of life for the foreseeable future and learning to adapt to that.” Episode recorded: June 21, 2021. Interviewer: Dr Andi Horvath. Producer, audio engineer and editor: Chris Hatzis. Co-producers: Silvi Vann-Wall and Dr Andi Horvath. Part exhibition, part experiment, MENTAL is a welcoming place to confront societal bias and stereotypes about mental health. It features 21 works from local and international artists and research collaborators that explore different ways of being, surviving and connecting to each other. Opening in July 2021, book your free tickets now. Banner: SELFCARE4EVA_2001 by Mary Angley and Caithlin O'Loghlen: Installation view, MENTAL: Head Inside, Science Gallery Melbourne. Picture: Alan Weedon.

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Getting involved

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2021 26:40

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused uncertainty and stress for so many university students. So how can universities support and reach out to students? And how do students build up their resilience? Professor Sarah Wilson is the Pro Vice-Chancellor Student Life at the University of Melbourne and an internationally recognised expert in cognitive neuroscience and clinical neuropsychology. She says a sense of belonging and connection is crucial for mental health and wellbeing. “We know that social friendships, even just a brief hello with the local barista while we are ordering a coffee, social contacts, connections are in fact the things that alter our mood and protect our mental health because they are associated with increases in our sense of wellbeing.” And while COVID-19 has made that challenging, people should take the opportunity to reconnect as restrictions ease. “Our sense of belonging and connection and your sense of mental health and wellbeing depends on you stepping out of that door and not stepping back in, but hopping on the tram, or on your bike, or in your car... and being part of the community.” Professor Wilson also says it's important to get used to the “idea of change” as we move through lockdown and pandemic restrictions. “Having in our toolkit, methods for starting to learn to live with this virus and accepting that this fluctuating pattern might be part of life for the foreseeable future and learning to adapt to that.” Episode recorded: June 21, 2021. Interviewer: Dr Andi Horvath. Producer, audio engineer and editor: Chris Hatzis. Co-producers: Silvi Vann-Wall and Dr Andi Horvath. Part exhibition, part experiment, MENTAL is a welcoming place to confront societal bias and stereotypes about mental health. It features 21 works from local and international artists and research collaborators that explore different ways of being, surviving and connecting to each other. Opening in July 2021, book your free tickets now. Banner: SELFCARE4EVA_2001 by Mary Angley and Caithlin O'Loghlen: Installation view, MENTAL: Head Inside, Science Gallery Melbourne. Picture: Alan Weedon.

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What's Next with Professor Dr Jonathan AJ Wilson

The What's Next Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2021 22:26

We chat with Professor Dr Jonathan AJ Wilson, Professor of Brand Strategy and Culture at Regent's University in London. We discussed how businesses can avoid tokenism in advertising & company culture and how the smart money is on embracing this watershed moment. "Avoid tokenism, hire experts!" ABOUT PROFESSOR DR JONATHAN A.J. WILSON Professor Jonathan A.J. Wilson has spent over 20 years in industry and academia as a practitioner with https://www.dundee.ac.uk/stories/halal-guru-receives-rare-degree-dundee (two doctorates) - specialising in what he calls the ABCDs of Business and Culture: Advertising, Branding, Communications, and Digital. He started his career in the late ‘90s, working in media owner and client-side advertising management roles in London – ranging from sales, sponsorship, planning and buying, to events and PR. In 2005 he moved into marketing consultancy, professional training and academia. Professor Wilson has published over 200 pieces of work, spoken at over 100 conferences across the globe and featured in LinkedIn's annual Top Voices awards list for https://www.regents.ac.uk/news/top-voices-dr-jonathan-wilson-named-on-linkedins-annual-list (4 consecutive years). Also, having graduated from 4 different faculties, previously been an elite athlete, and worked as a professional musician and songwriter, he aims to champion the art of Science and the science of Art. ------------------------------------------------- **DR JONATHAN A.J WILSON LINKS** Website: http://drjonwilson.com/ (drjonwilson.com) Twitter: https://twitter.com/drjonwilson (twitter.com/drjonwilson) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjonwilson (www.instagram.com/drjonwilson) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjonwilson/ (www.linkedin.com/in/drjonwilson) --------------------------------------------------- **FOLLOW US** INSTAGRAM - www.instagram.com/activeintworld TWITTER - https://twitter.com/ActiveIntlUK (twitter.com/ActiveIntlUK) KARIM - https://twitter.com/karimkanji (twitter.com/karimkanji) PODCAST WEBSITE - www.thewhatsnextpodcast.com

Professor's Admit It - Professor Jessica Wilson - Worship Arts

Let's Admit It - College Admissions Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2021 27:32

In this season of Let's Admit It, I, Mike Gritton, interview some of the best people at Boise Bible College - The Professors! The professors of Boise Bible are highly regarded individuals because of their kindness, humility, and innovation. Time and time again, we hear students share how much the professors genuinely awesome they are. So, we are bringing them to you! In this episode, I speak with Jessica Wilson. Professor Wilson is the Worship Arts department head. Jessica is originally from Bloomington-Normal, IL, and this year she celebrates 10 years with Boise Bible! She graduated from Lincoln Christian Seminary and currently, getting her Doctorate in Worship Studies. Listen to learn more! Learn more about Boise Bible College at www.boisebible.edu. music by www.bensound.com.

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Redirect: Change Your Story, Change Your Life with Prof. Timothy Wilson

Exam Study Expert: study tips and psychology hacks to learn effectively and get top grades

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2021 37:16

Discover the secrets of how mastering your mindset can set you up for success with renowned mindset scholar, Professor Timothy D. Wilson.Why does mindset matter?How to change the stories you tell yourself, and put yourself on the path to success?How to respond to disappointment and setbacks?Professor Wilson is the author of one of my all-time favourite books on mindset and motivation, "Redirect: Changing The Stories We Live By". It's outstanding. I'd highly encourage you to get a copy here: https://geni.us/changeyourstory.SUPERCHARGE YOUR GRADES THIS YEAR: with 1:1 coaching to help you study smarter, not harder, so you can get higher grades with less work and less stress: https://examstudyexpert.com/coaching/Get a copy of Outsmart Your Exams, my award-winning exam technique book, at https://geni.us/exams*As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

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011 Branding, cultural appropriation and stereotyping with Prof Jonathan A.J. Wilson

The Elephant in the Room

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2021 29:33

Show NotesI enjoy recording podcast with all my guests but this one was particularly full of laughter, learning and insights. For the 11th episode of #TheElephantintheRoom I interviewed Professor Jonathan A.J. Wilson, a Professor of Brand Strategy & Culture at Regent's University London, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Islamic Marketing and the author of ‘Halal Branding'. Born and raised in Manchester, Professor Wilson is the son of a white Scottish father and Black Carribbean mother in a Christian household. He converted to Islam in 2000. He has deep knowledge of different cultures, speaks multiple languages with ease and is passionate about marketing and branding. In this episode he speaks about the absence of diversity in leadership positions in higher education

EP9: Fast Fashion Animal Toxicology with UC Davis Professor Wilson Rumbeiha

E.S.NOW

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2021 40:36

On this episode of E.S.Now, our special guest is Wilson Rumbeiha, Professor of Veterinary Toxicology at UC Davis, here to tell us his thoughts about the link between animals and fast fashion pollution. Born and raised in Western Uganda. He obtained his PhD in Biomedical Sciences with a focus on Toxicology at Ontario Veterinary College, then moved to the US where he finished his Residency/Post Doc across the country. He is a Fellow in the Academy of Toxicological Sciences and he is here to tell us his insight into how fast fashion pollution effects animals.

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Property and Liberalism, with Bart Wilson

Ideas in Progress

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2020 35:55

IHS Senior Fellow and Chapman University professor, Bart Wilson stops by to discuss his book “The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind.” Host Anthony Comegna prompts Professor Wilson on what spurred him to undertake such a sweeping concept for this book, as well as do animals have the same economic principles as humans, and all sorts of other facets around the topic of property.

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Heavy Hour #117 - Chapa de centro em eleição é bomba semiótica

Heavy Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2020 84:00

Em plena guerra híbrida da geopolítica nossa de cada dia, a equipe do Heavy Hour recebe mais uma vez o Professor Wilson Ferreira, que, tal um cabo armeiro, nos ajuda a desmontar as bombas semióticas que dominam o espectro político desde a sede do Império até as eleições municipais em nosso país. Salles chama Maia de Nhonho, Bozoquina toma guaraná Jesus e teme desmunhecar, Biden é eleito e promete salvar a civilização ocidental das garras do extremismo de direita, enquanto se abraça nos bilhões da indústria armamentista, a vacina chinesa vai pro beleléu do Butantã, e a frente democrática de centro é lançada no Fantástico, com Moro e Huck sinalizando o fim dos extremismos em nosso país, enquanto uma parte da esquerda discute a neutralidade de gênero e sonha, embaixo das cobertas, com as praças chilenas e a redenção boliviana. Embalados pelo rock que contesta e desnuda os mecanismos, um pedido especial de nosso especial convidade, o HH segue anunciando a campanha do Apoia.se do Coletivo Catarse e faz também um jabá esperto pro livro Bombas Semióticas na Guerra Híbrida Brasileira (2013 a 2016) - Por que aquilo deu nisso?, um apanhado de artigos do Blog Cinegnose, do Professor Wilson. Bora desarmar mais essa bomba e escutar o Heavy Hour da semana! Wilson Roberto Vieira Ferreira, Bombas Semióticas na Guerra Híbrida Brasileira (2013 a 2016) - Por que aquilo deu nisso?, São Paulo: Publicações Cinegnose, 2020 http://cinegnose.blogspot.com/2017/07/bombas-semioticas-brasileiras-2013-2016.html

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The brain benefits of music

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2020 28:00

"The experience of music is really a whole-brain activity," says Professor Sarah Wilson, Head of the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. “When we’re listening to music, what we see when we put people in the scanner is that large areas of their brain light up – both hemispheres. That’s because music involves many different networks or systems in the brain,” Professor Wilson says. "There’s all sorts of debate in the research literature as to why we are even musical," she adds. “When we think about music, it is something unique to being human. Other species, animals, they don’t really use music in the way that we do. They might have song, or calls, but these are more simple, for mating purposes, or the like." “No other species uses a complex musical system like we do.” Professor Wilson explains that while you’re listening to music, you’re giving your brain a general workout. “You’re not only exercising the music-related bits, you’re also exercising your memory, you’re exercising the language system, you’re exercising all these other networks. So, that’s what, potentially, is protective. It’s based on that 'use it or lose it' principle.” Episode recorded: September 8, 2020. Interviewer: Dr Andi Horvath. Producer, audio engineer and editor: Chris Hatzis. Co-production: Silvi Vann-Wall and Dr Andi Horvath. Banner: Getty Images.

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The brain benefits of music

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2020 28:00

"The experience of music is really a whole-brain activity," says Professor Sarah Wilson, Head of the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. “When we're listening to music, what we see when we put people in the scanner is that large areas of their brain light up – both hemispheres. That's because music involves many different networks or systems in the brain,” Professor Wilson says. "There's all sorts of debate in the research literature as to why we are even musical," she adds. “When we think about music, it is something unique to being human. Other species, animals, they don't really use music in the way that we do. They might have song, or calls, but these are more simple, for mating purposes, or the like." “No other species uses a complex musical system like we do.” Professor Wilson explains that while you're listening to music, you're giving your brain a general workout. “You're not only exercising the music-related bits, you're also exercising your memory, you're exercising the language system, you're exercising all these other networks. So, that's what, potentially, is protective. It's based on that 'use it or lose it' principle.” Episode recorded: September 8, 2020. Interviewer: Dr Andi Horvath. Producer, audio engineer and editor: Chris Hatzis. Co-production: Silvi Vann-Wall and Dr Andi Horvath. Banner: Getty Images.

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【绝望的主妇】“你这点还是值得表扬的。”

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2020 4:52

【句子】But you do get credit for one thing. 【Desperate Housewives-S1E16】【发音】[bʌt] [ju:] [du:] [get] [ˈkred.ɪt] [fɔ:(r)] [wʌn] [θɪŋ]【发音技巧】do重读；get credit for完全失去爆破+不完全失去爆破；【翻译】但是你还是有一点值得肯定的。【适用场合】一般看到credit都想到credit card信用卡但是credit 本意还可以指praise, approval or honor所以get credit for sth. 或者give credit for sth.指的是因为某个任务、达到某项成就、做成了什么事儿而得到表扬、敬慕或者感谢To receive praise, admiration, or acknowledgement for some task, achievement, or accomplishment. eg: Even though Jenny did all the hard work on the project, Mary was the one who got credit for it.尽管是Jenny干了整个项目中最艰难的工作，但是Mary确是那个受到表彰的人。eg: It's good to see Professor Wilson getting credit for her findings.Wilson教授因为她的研究发现而受到嘉奖，我还是很欣慰的。eg: York City are a better team than they are given credit for.约克城足球队的实际比大家口中的要更好一些。【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】情人节这天你还能想起来给我买花，这点还是值得表扬的。

【绝望的主妇】“你这点还是值得表扬的。”

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2020 4:52

【句子】But you do get credit for one thing. 【Desperate Housewives-S1E16】【发音】[bʌt] [ju:] [du:] [get] [ˈkred.ɪt] [fɔ:(r)] [wʌn] [θɪŋ]【发音技巧】do重读；get credit for完全失去爆破+不完全失去爆破；【翻译】但是你还是有一点值得肯定的。【适用场合】一般看到credit都想到credit card信用卡但是credit 本意还可以指praise, approval or honor所以get credit for sth. 或者give credit for sth.指的是因为某个任务、达到某项成就、做成了什么事儿而得到表扬、敬慕或者感谢To receive praise, admiration, or acknowledgement for some task, achievement, or accomplishment. eg: Even though Jenny did all the hard work on the project, Mary was the one who got credit for it.尽管是Jenny干了整个项目中最艰难的工作，但是Mary确是那个受到表彰的人。eg: It's good to see Professor Wilson getting credit for her findings.Wilson教授因为她的研究发现而受到嘉奖，我还是很欣慰的。eg: York City are a better team than they are given credit for.约克城足球队的实际比大家口中的要更好一些。【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】情人节这天你还能想起来给我买花，这点还是值得表扬的。

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The Politics of Space: An Interview with Mabel Wilson

Being Human

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2020 38:19

An interview with Mabel Wilson, architect, designer, and professor of architecture at Columbia University. The interview focuses on Professor Wilson's life and career, including her 2012 book "Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums." The website for Who Builds Your Architecture?, which we discuss in the interview, can be found here: whobuilds.org/.

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#050 The good samaritan with Professor Mark Wilson

Life After Cardiac Arrest

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2020 32:14

In episode 50, the season 2 finale, Paul talks with Professor Mark Wilson who is qualified in both neurology and pre-hospital care and works at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and for Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance Trust. He is also the co-founder of the GoodSAM platform and app and this is what we talk about today.Professor Wilson takes us through the inception of the platforma as a way to reduce deaths from cardiac arrest and it's take-up by many across the UK and further afield. The platform has gained additional services and responsibilities and is being used to manage the NHS Coronavirus Volunteer responders programme.In just a few years the GoodSAM team have built an enviable platform and reputation and Professor Wilson takes us through what it can do to help those in cardiac arrest and beyond.If you enjoyed this podcast please do leave a positive review on Apple or other podcast providers as it helps us to spread the word.Presented and edited by Paul Swindell.Recorded June 2020. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Clearing the Haze: Understanding the Process of Scarring Following Corneal Injury - Professor Steven E. Wilson

SciPod

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2020 16:07

Any injury such as trauma, surgery or infection to the cornea in the eye may result in persistent scarring (clinically referred to as fibrosis) due to the wound healing response. Professor Steven E. Wilson at the Cole Eye Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation has identified that defective epithelial basement membrane (EBM) regeneration plays a central role in the development of scar producing myofibroblast cells. Critically, Professor Wilson suggests that the pathophysiological consequences of defective EBM regeneration are also likely to have wider relevance to the fibrosis that occurs in other organs, such as the lungs, heart, kidneys, and skin.

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124: Earning Freedom with Michael Santos

Prison Professors With Michael Santos

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2020 24:09

Podcast 124: Earning Freedom with Michael Santos Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term I’m reading from chapter six of Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term, by Michael Santos. In this reading, we’re covering chapter Six: 1992-1995 Months 62-84 It’s Thanksgiving, 1992, just before my sixth holiday season in prison. Despite the forbidden affair I’ve been carrying on with Sarah for the past six months, today she tells me that she needs to move on with her life. She understands the risks associated with our trysts and she’s come to the conclusion that the stress would be too much to bear for another 21 years. I’ve hardened emotionally, as I’m now familiar with the concept of loss. I’ve been expecting this moment, anticipating her good-bye since our first kiss. Grateful that it has lasted this long, I’m prepared to move forward. ******* “What’s up? Did she finally dump you?” Windward asks, sensing my despondency when I return to the cell and drop to my rack without undressing. “I told you she’s my lawyer. That’s it.” “And I told my judge that I thought it was flour I was bringin’ in. What’s that got to do with anythin’?” “Can’t you just be quiet?” “Least you can do is tell me how it went down. No sense keep denyin’ it. Ain’t no hot young lawyer gonna keep visitin’ a man in the joint ’less somethin’s going on. ‘Sides that, I smell her all over ya.” “She was trying to help with my case. That’s it. Enough, just drop it.” Lying on my rack, ignoring Windward’s irritating interrogation, I silently acknowledge that I knew Sarah would eventually disappear from my life. She was a wonderful, delicious respite from my all-male world, but now she’s gone and despondency starts to settle in like a dense fog. Thoughts of women, family, and the normal life from which I’m separated rush in, squeezing me. I have to refocus, to push thoughts of Sarah out of my mind and block all hope of finding a woman to carry this burden with me. I’m going to focus on completing five years at a time, alone. I’ve got to reach 1997. ******* The people have elected William Jefferson Clinton the 42nd president of the United States. I closely followed the political coverage throughout the year. Julie even purchased a subscription to the Washington Post for me to keep abreast of politics. Now, on a sunny day in January 1993, I’m overwhelmed by my emotions, tears filling my eyes, as I watch Justice Rehnquist swear our new president into office. “Why do you care so much who the president is when you can’t even vote?” In my sister’s world the president doesn’t play much part in day-to-day life and she doesn’t grasp why I’m optimistic with this switch from Bush to Clinton. As a federal prisoner, I live under the restrictions of the Bureau of Prisons, an agency that needs major reform. I’m hoping that President Clinton or his attorney general will appoint a new director of this agency. I’m certain the change will bring more empathy, as the president’s younger brother, Roger, served a federal prison sentence for nonviolent cocaine trafficking. Reform and liberalization of prison could well come under Clinton’s leadership. In preparation of a research report I’m working on for Hofstra I read about various progressive prison systems that President Clinton may consider. In Scandinavian countries citizens from local communities participate in panels designed to oversee and facilitate positive adjustments for offenders. Prisoners meet with “ombudsmen panels” at the beginning of their terms and together they work to establish clearly defined, individualized programs that prisoners may follow to reconcile with society and earn their freedom through merit. No similar program exists in our justice system, though under Clinton there’s hope for change. Hope has been a mantra of Clinton’s throughout the campaign, and if he wants to restore it for people in prison, he’ll need a different kind of system. Instead of a system that encourages offenders to embrace societal values, studies combined with my experiences convince me that our system has a dramatically different mission with dramatically different outcomes. It began to deteriorate in 1973, after Robert Martinson, a criminologist, published “Nothing Works.” It was an influential study suggesting that regardless of what programs administrators initiated, people in prison were incapable of reform. Then Professor James Q. Wilson, a mentor of Dr. DiIulio’s, published his widely quoted book, Thinking About Crime. In that book, Professor Wilson suggested that society ought to limit the functions of prisons to two goals: isolate and punish. I’d like to see a different approach, and under President Clinton’s leadership, I’m hopeful for meaningful reforms. Either way, I’m on my own, knowing that I must succeed in spite of external forces. The concepts of isolation, deterrence, and punishment don’t concern me. I’m making daily progress by staying physically fit and putting in long hours of study toward my master’s degree. Regardless of whether President Clinton appoints enlightened leadership to change the system or not, I’ll continue to learn and grow. Neither the system of punishment nor anything else will block me from achieving the goals that I set. Despite the rigid, punishment-based policies espoused by theorists like Martinson and DiIulio and endorsed by the BOP–policies that thwart my struggle to emerge as a capable and contributing citizen–I’m heartened to learn of leaders who embrace what I consider an enlightened system of justice. Some come from surprising places, like the United States Supreme Court. In a 1985 commencement speech entitled “Factories With Fences,” Former Chief Justice Warren Burger called for the graduating students from Pace University to reform America’s growing prison system. Instead of perpetuating a system that simply isolates and punishes, Justice Burger urged changes within the system that would encourage prisoners to work toward “earning and learning their way to freedom.” Although eight years have passed since Justice Burger delivered his speech, the Bureau of Prisons has done little to implement his vision. I don’t see any way to earn freedom. Through my work and achievements I want to become an example and a catalyst for change. I may not advance my release date, but I will contribute, and I will lead a life of relevance. I will show by example that self-discipline and education can lead a prisoner to emerge as a contributing citizen, and I will urge reforms that encourage others to do the same. ******* I’m inspired by what I’ve learned from The Future of Imprisonment, a book Dr. Norval Morris published in the 1970s. Dr. Morris wrote that prisons in an enlightened society should enable prisoners to rise to their highest levels of competence. His thoughts resonate with me so I write him. Thinking that he’s still a law professor at Harvard, I send my letter of introduction to Cambridge. I want him to know that his work has touched my life, and I ask for his guidance going forward. Several months pass before I receive his response. Administrators at Harvard forwarded my letter, as Dr. Morris moved to become the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law at The University of Chicago. He responded graciously to my letter, offering to advise me with my studies at Hofstra and throughout the remainder of my term. “I may be of particular help to you at times,” he writes, “as I’ve known every director of the Bureau of Prisons, and the past three directors are close friends of mine. Count on my support if you run into any obstacles with your pursuit of education.” Dr. Morris’s support boosts my spirits. To have distinguished academics like Professors McPherson, DiIulio, and Morris as mentors means that I’ll have guidance from the same professionals who offer expert opinions to legislators and to the highest levels of prison administrators. The professors will have an interest in preparing me for release; I can trust in them to advocate for me if I need help. Through our letters and phone calls, Dr. Morris and I become friends. He encourages me to call him Norval and introduces me to other leading American penologists. I begin to correspond with professors from across the United States, including scholars such as Leo Carroll, Todd Clear, Francis Cullen, Timothy Flanagan, Tara Gray, and Marilyn McShane. They all support my efforts and invite me to contribute to their work. As a prisoner who studies prisons from the inside and shares what he knows with the world of academia, I’m evidently unique. Dr. George Cole, an author and Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Connecticut, pledges his support. We begin to build a close friendship. Liberation seeps incrementally into my psyche with each of these relationships. I’m less susceptible to the hopelessness that pervades the lives around me. The woman I loved left me and I serve a sentence that is still measured in decades, but I’ve created a sense of meaning and I feel as though I’m making progress, which is the key to growth. ******* Bruce and I have completed our collaboration on “Transcending the Wall” about the importance of education in transforming prisoners’ lives. He generously gives me credit as the first author but it is Bruce who coordinates publication in the scholarly, peer-reviewed Journal of Criminal Justice Education. As I told Bruce during our summer visit in 1993, our publication serves a pragmatic purpose. “I need to start thinking about transferring from this penitentiary,” I tell him during one of our visits. “Are you feeling threatened?” he asks, on alert. Bruce read about the violence at USP Atlanta in a New York Times article that cited it as one of the nation’s most dangerous high security prisons. He’s always concerned about my safety. “My schedule keeps me away from trouble, but gang activity is more intense every day. It’s violent, bloodshed every week. I think it’s time to request a transfer.” “So what’s stopping you?” “I need more information. The thing is, when a prisoner asks for a transfer there’s no telling where the BOP will send him. It’s like playing roulette. I need to transfer to the most education-friendly prison possible.” “Can Norval help you?” “He can help, and he said he would. The problem is that I don’t know where to go. If I ask for a transfer the BOP will probably send me closer to Seattle, but being closer to home isn’t as important as the preparations I need to make for when I get out.” “What do we need to do?” I always love Bruce’s steadfast support, and I especially appreciate his use of the “we,” meaning he’s always on board to help. “I need to find the best prison for educational programming, but not according to what staff members say. I need inside information from actual prisoners who serve time in the institutions.” Bruce doesn’t understand why the prisoners’ perspective is so valuable to me when I actively avoid close interactions with the penitentiary population. I try to explain. “If someone were to inquire about educational opportunities here at USP Atlanta, the staff would discuss the basic programs. They would say that teachers, classrooms, and even college programs are available. But I’m the only prisoner out of 2,500 who’s earned a degree here, and there’s a reason for that. It’s because, despite what staff members say, the atmosphere in here is oppressive and the policies in practice discourage us from pursuing an education.” “Yes, but you’ve gotten around the obstacles here. What makes you think that you won’t get around them wherever you go?” “The reason I make progress here is because I have support from Ms. Stephens, Mr. Chandler, and a few others. They let me create a schedule that allows me to avoid problems and gives me access to computers; they intervene when policies or staff members try to block me. When I get to the next prison I’m just another prisoner, and I’ll be facing obstacles there like everyone else, including from BOP staff members that may resent me for striving to become something more. Those kinds of staff members throw up insurmountable barriers. I see them every day here, but this penitentiary has become as familiar to me as the back of my hand and I know how to get around in here. I need details and the up-to-date truth from prisoners about what goes on in other prisons. With that information I can decide where to request a transfer.” Our conversation evolves into a plan. Bruce writes a letter of introduction to Sylvia McCollum, the Director of Education for the entire Bureau of Prisons. He lists his credentials as a retired professor of education from Chicago and explains that for the past several years he has been mentoring me. He includes a copy of the article we co-authored, offering to travel to Washington to meet with Ms. McCollum and discuss contributions he might make to the Bureau of Prisons as a volunteer. Had I written to Sylvia McCollum directly, it’s unlikely that my letter would’ve reached her, or that I would’ve received a response. With Bruce as my emissary, on the other hand, I knew that I would have a better chance of receiving the data I was looking to find. Bruce visited Ms. McCollum at her office in DC, at the Bureau of Prisons headquarters. She welcomed his offer to mentor other prisoners and even congratulated me through Bruce on the progress I’ve made. When he told her that he wanted to help others, Ms. McCollum encouraged him. She gave him clearance to visit any federal prison he wanted and instructed those who presided over education departments to accommodate him by arranging private meetings with the prisoners who were most active in education programs. “I’m ready to begin my journey,” Bruce tells me over the phone after describing his successful meeting with Ms. McCollum. “Where should I go?” ******* The research work pays off. With Bruce and Norval’s assistance, I successfully coordinate my transfer after learning that the best prison for education is FCI McKean. It’s wonderful news when guards inform me that I’m being transferred out of the United States Penitentiary and that I’m on my way to McKean. “Santos. 16377-004.” I respond to the guard who processes me in for transfer as he calls me forward. He shakes my wrists to ensure the handcuffs are secure and then yanks on the chain around my waist. “Whadda we got goin’ on down here?” The guard pulls my pant legs out from between my skin and the steel bracelets locked around my ankles. “I didn’t get any socks, sir. The chains were digging into my shins.” “Gonna have to live with it. Security first.” He tightens the cuffs to ensure I don’t pull the pant legs through again. Then he clears me. I once read a novel by Wilbur Smith describing the horrific experiences of people who were locked in chains after slave traders captured them. The slaves were forced to walk across rough terrain to the ships stealing them from Africa. The descriptions sickened me when I read the novel and I’m reminded of them as I shuffle my way onto the bus. The steel rings once again cut into my skin, but by shortening my steps I lessen the pain. My stomach churns despite three earlier trips to the bathroom. My body hasn’t moved faster than my legs could carry it since 1988, the last time I was in a vehicle. Now, in the spring of 1994, I’m sitting on an uncomfortable seat in the prison bus that is about to transport me out of USP Atlanta. Diesel fumes from the engines make me nauseous and beads of sweat form on my forehead It’s been seven years since my arrest. I’m now 30-years-old, certainly a different man, though still a prisoner with a long, steep climb into more darkness. I smile as I settle into the black vinyl seat, recalling how I engineered this transfer. With Norval’s help the administrative obstacles to the transfer were insignificant. Bruce visited five prisons and spoke with several prisoners in each. Clearly, the news about the Federal Correctional Institution in Bradford, Pennsylvania, known as FCI McKean, suggested that it would be my best choice. The prisoners at McKean refer to it as “Dream McKean,” with a progressive warden, Dennis Luther, who wholeheartedly supports educational programs. Ordinarily the documented address of release residence in my case file would’ve prohibited my transfer to McKean. The BOP confined me in the Southeast region because of my arrest in South Florida, but my release address is Seattle. “I can submit a transfer for you to FCI McKean,” my case manager told me when I asked, “but I know the Region isn’t going to approve it. You don’t have a release address for that part of the country, and I know you’ll either be sent to a prison in the West or another prison here in the Southeast.” “I don’t care about being close to home. I’ve got too much time left to serve and McKean’s the best spot to finish my education.” I persisted with the request, knowing she wanted to help. “Look, I support you and I’m going to submit you for McKean. I’m just telling you what’s going to happen. Once I send the file to the regional office it’s out of my hands, and no one in that office knows anything about you.” My case manager, Ms. Forbes, had attended my graduation in 1992 and helped me make arrangements with the mailroom to receive the books I needed from the Hofstra library. She supported my efforts but was honest in telling me what she thought would happen once she put forth my file for transfer. I existed only as a number in the system, and I understood that all consideration from staff at USP Atlanta would end with my transfer request. After that conversation with my case manager I called Norval and explained the advantages that FCI McKean offered along with the challenges I would have in transferring. Norval said he knew the regional director and promised to call him on my behalf. That was two days ago. When the bus engine begins to roar, I feel ready to leave. I’ve lived through six holiday seasons amidst prisoners serving multiple life sentences in the penitentiary. Transitioning to a medium-security prison means encountering less volatility and more optimism, I hope. As I wait for the bus to roll along, my thoughts, curiously, turn to my eventual release. I submitted a petition for clemency about six months ago. It wasn’t my intention to submit the petition until 1997, when I would’ve completed my first decade. But after discussing my plan with Norval, he convinced me on the merits of submitting the petition at once. “These efforts take time and work,” Norval explained, “and clemency is extremely rare, especially in this political climate. I don’t see any advantage in waiting until 1997. You’ve earned one university degree and you’re well on your way to earning a second. Draft a petition now and send it to me for review. I think you should get the process started.” With Norval’s letter of support, I proudly sent my petition to the U.S. pardon attorney in Washington. That was more than six months ago. Whenever I’ve made an inquiry on the progress, I received form letters that say my petition is under review. I have no idea what will happen, if anything. I can’t grasp the concept of 19 more years in prison. But I’m transferring from a high-security penitentiary to a medium-security FCI now, and I’m excited about the change of scenery, even if I’m still immersed in a population of more than 1,500 felons.

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Four lessons for marketing during the Coronavirus crisis

Core Insights: Leading through COVID-19

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2020 32:10 Transcription Available

In Warwick Business School's special Core Insights podcast series on how organisations can survive the Coronavirus crisis, host Trevor Barnes interviews Hugh Wilson, Professor of Marketing, on how brands should market during the pandemic. Professor Wilson and his colleagues have analysed data produced by insights agency MESH Experience's tracking of consumers during the first weeks of the crisis to draw up four valuable lessons for brands. After listening to this WBS Core Insights podcast read Professor Wilson's article on it here.

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PopHealth Week: Meet Yolonda Wilson PhD on Healthcare Equity

HealthcareNOW Radio - Insights and Discussion on Healthcare, Healthcare Information Technology and More

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2020 27:48

Hosts Fred Goldstein and Gregg Masters, MPH welcome Yolonda Yvette Wilson, a 2019-2020 fellow at the National Humanities Center and a 2019-2020 Encore Public Voices fellow. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Wilson is the lead editor of a forthcoming special issue of The Journal of Social Philosophy entitled Exploring Racial Injustice. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask Siri or Alexa to “….Play HealthcareNOW Radio”. Find all of our show episodes on your favorite podcast platforms. www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

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Meet Yolonda Wilson PhD @ProfYolonda On Healthcare Equity

PopHealth Week

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2020 28:00

On PopHealth Week, our guest today is Yolonda Yvette Wilson. Dr. Wilson is a 2019/2020 fellow at the National Humanities Center and a 2019/2020 Encore Public Voices fellow. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include bioethics, social and political philosophy, race theory, and feminist philosophy. She is broadly interested in the nature and limits of the state’s obligations to rectify historic and continuing injustice, particularly in the realm of health care, and is developing an account of justice that articulates specific requirements for racial justice in health care at the end of life. Dr. Wilson's recent article, “Intersectionality in Clinical Medicine: The Need for a Conceptual Framework,” is a consideration on applying intersectionality’s intellectual approach (how race, gender, and other social identities converge in order to create unique forms of oppression) in the clinical environment. Professor Wilson is the lead editor of a forthcoming special issue of The Journal of Social Philosophy entitled Exploring Racial Injustice. Join us! ==##==

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NutriMedical Report Show Wednesday Oct 16th 2019 – Hour Two – Lowell Ponte, The left’s plan to abolish prisons, 6 % of Human are Criminal Predators, Biochemical Genetic Evil Lurchs in These People!, Crazy SQUAD,

NutriMedical Report

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2019 53:50

Lowell Ponte, The left’s plan to abolish prisons, 6 % of Human are Criminal Predators, Biochemical Genetic Evil Lurchs in These People!, Crazy SQUAD, Ilhan Omar, Absent a Cortex, Brainless Hell Clown, Demon-Rats, End of Civil Armerican Society, No Defense No Guns, Crazies on Loose All Over Nation, Dr Bill Deagle MD AAEM ACAM A4M, NutriMedical Report Show, www.NutriMedical.com, www.ClayandIRON.com, www.Deagle-Network.com,https://www.nutrimedical.com/product-category/epigenetic-song-of-dna-therapy/, The left’s plan to abolish prisonsLowell Ponte takes aim at AOC over desire to free criminals WND, October 10, 2019 URL: https://www.wnd.com/2019/10/lefts-plan-abolish-prisons/“Mass incarceration is our American reality,” declared socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., days ago via Twitter. “It is a system whose logic evolved from the same lineage as Jim Crow, American apartheid & slavery. That means we need to have a real conversation about decarceration & prison abolition in this country.”Ocasio-Cortez is a utopian believer in the state’s power to re-engineer human minds and hearts. She believes that “the U.S. incarcerates more than anywhere in the world” – nearly 2.3 million, just over two-thirds of 1% of our population – because we use our jails and prisons “as de facto mental hospitals, homeless shelters, & detox centers instead of … investing in … mental health, housing, edu, & rehab.”Her “prison abolition” views were echoed this month by the radicalized Student Government Assembly at New York University, which issued a statement opposing Marxocrat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to replace the Rikers Island Prison with new, more “humane” jails.The student statement declared that “jails do not make us safe” and instead “serve only to further harm black and brown families, individuals, and communities and to perpetuate a racist and violent criminal legal system.”The statement, writes American Thinker pundit Eric Utter, also “endorsed a plan by a group called ‘No New Jails NYC’ that would mandate the $11 billion de Blasio was to invest in new jails instead be used to fund ‘housing for all,’ and other (woker) public programs.”No New Jails NYC is “committed to totally abolishing the city’s jail system by ‘disrupting every level of power’ and demands that de Blasio ‘responsibly release’ the 1,000 or so prisoners at Rikers.”Last July, under the bipartisan, idealistic “First Step Act,” the federal government released the first 2,243 of what is supposed to become a flood tide of non-violent inmates back into society. Skeptics had doubts, especially when Democrats blocked an amendment requiring those released to have only a non-violent criminal record. In fact, in this first group set free were 496 imprisoned for weapons/explosives-related crimes, 239 for sex offenses, 106 for robbery and 59 found guilty of homicide or aggravated assault.One of those released earlier this year after passage of the First Step Act was 41-year-old Joel Francisco, who had been serving a three-strikes-you’re-out life sentence for trafficking crack and powder cocaine. He had also been leader of a violent criminal gang, the Almighty Latin Kings, in Providence, Rhode Island. He reportedly was convicted in 1997 for assault with intent to murder. A warrant has just been issued for “non-violent” Francisco, who allegedly stabbed a man to death.Progressives believe that society makes people go bad and that leftist benevolence can make the most hardened recidivist criminal good. Leftist reformers renamed jails “penitentiaries,” places where criminals did “penance” and “repented.” For decades famed crime sociologist James Q. Wilson shared this idealistic people-are-inherently-good dogma.But one day Wilson awoke to reality: 3-6% of criminals are irredeemably evil. These predators see themselves as wolves and the rest of us as sheep to be sheared and preyed upon. They see parole boards as a game to lie to and con others into setting them loose again into civilized society.“Professor Wilson is not optimistic about changing the nature of man,” a fellow criminologist wrote, “and he clearly rejects the rehabilitative model as a historical failure and a hypocritical philosophy because of its inefficacy.”Repeat predatory criminals are incurable, Wilson realized. The only thing a sane society can do is lock them up and throw away the key. If jails are abolished, these freed wolves will devour us. In the left’s current heaven on Earth – socialist Venezuela – government confiscated the firearms of the law-abiding, then freed criminals and gave them these confiscated guns.In the United States, George Soros-manipulated liberal cities make it ever-easier for recidivist criminals to rob and intimidate without fearing jail time. Crime pays. The fearful law-abiding now look out through bars installed for safety over their home windows.Abolishing prisons should be a topic at the Oct. 15 Democratic presidential debate. Making his first appearance there will be egomaniacal billionaire Tom Steyer, who bought his place on stage. Ironically, Steyer made his billions by selling coal mines and a large investment in Corrections Corp. of America, a private company that operates for-profit prisons.In today’s America, the greediest and most vicious criminals have become the politically correct leftist politicians who rule and enslave us. As Mark Twain wrote: “There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

‘on imagining new [black] institutions’

Kamukunji

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2019 34:58

In this episode Patti Anahory speaks with Mabel O. Wilson, professor of architecture and Associate Director at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, New York. Professor Wilson talks, in part, about her book Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History & Culture, which traces the journey of building the museum in all its aspects, from its conception, to its organization, content to its built manifestation. errant_praxis asks professor Wilson to share her thoughts about how to imagine new types of platforms of validation, which simultaneously construct-deconstruct, repair, archive, support and allow for a constant state of flux to accommodate the complexity of our contexts and avoid becoming part of the establishment. bio Mabel O. Wilson is a Professor of Architecture, a co-director of Global Africa Lab (GAL) and the Associate Director at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. She’s currently writing Building Race and Nation, a book about how slavery influenced early American civic architecture. She has authored Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016) and Negro Building: African Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (2012). She is a member of the design team for the Memorial to Enslaved African American Laborers at the University of Virginia. She’s a founding member of Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?) a collective that advocates for fair labor practices on building sites worldwide and whose work was most recently shown in a solo show at the Art Institute of Chicago. In this episode professor Wilson mentions: Museum of African-American History and Culture https://nmaahc.si.edu/ The Smithsonian Institution https://www.si.edu/ Lonnie G. Bunch III https://www.si.edu/about/bios/lonnie-g-bunch-iii Mario Gooden https://www.arch.columbia.edu/faculty/16-mario-gooden Global Africa Lab https://www.arch.columbia.edu/research/labs/1-global-africa-lab Mpho Matsipa https://www.wits.ac.za/staff/academic-a-z-listing/m/mat/mphomatsipawitsacza/ African Mobilities Exhibition http://africanmobilities.org/ ***Episode image created from an institution-icon from: Icon made from Icon Fonts is licensed by CC BY 3.0

BRIAN WILSON Says By ‘Stepping Out of Your Mind,’ Keeping Connected to Other People & Be Sure to Have Close Friends to Connect & Converse With Will Keep You Young, Alive & Mentally Alert” – That’s the Quest For The New Age

Mature Preneurs Talk with Diana Todd-Banks

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2018 30:13

Professor Brian Wilson says John E. Fetzer was a fascinating man who kept himself mentally alert and young by constantly exploring anything new and is why Brian wrote about him in the book ‘Quest for the New Age’. But that’s not the only reason. As professor of American religious history in the Department of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Brian explored John Fetzer’s as he had two extremely contrasting sides to his life. A media mogul and the owner of the Detroit Tigers baseball team for almost thirty years beginning in 1956, when he died John Fetzer was one of the wealthiest people in the US. But the other side Professor Wilson says, is the most interesting aspect one that was not well known – John’s life-long spiritual search that led him from traditional forms of Christianity to an exploration of a variety of metaphysical religions culminating in the New Age a term that was just beginning to emerge. The result of Brian’s search was Fetzer ultimately used his wealth to found the Kalamazoo-based Fetzer Institute which funds programs exploring the power of love and forgiveness to help build the spiritual foundation for a loving world. The other, Fetzer Memorial Trust, which remains, committed to Fetzer’s vision of a new spiritual science by funding cutting-edge research into the frontiers of physics, biology, and consciousness. This remarkable man followed these 3 principles and suggested that everyone adopt them as they move toward midlife and 50 looms large. ‘Step Out of Your Mind,’ Keep Connected to Other People & Be Sure to Have Close Friends to Connect & Converse With doing these three things Will Keep You Young, Alive & Mentally Alert”. To learn more go to the website infinitepotential.com.

The 30 Years' War (1618-48) and the Second Defenestration of Prague

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Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2018 44:50

Professor Wilson will examine the causes, conduct and consequences of the Thirty Years' War, Europe's most destructive conflict prior to the two 20th-century world wars. The talk takes place on the 400th anniversary of the defenestration of three Habsburg officials by Bohemian malcontents in Prague. This violent act triggered a crisis which expanded into general war despite the best efforts of most of those involved to contain it. Why it took so long to make peace, and what extent the conflict can be considered a 'religious war' will also be discussed.The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-30-years-war-1618-48-and-the-second-defenestration-of-pragueGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 2,000 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollege Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege

2018 Regular Season – Episode 8

Coaches and Coffee: FSU Softball Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2018

The coaches recap of our games against Troy and Syracuse, breakdown a new Twitter Top 10 and chat about what a three-game series over three days has done to softball. Professor Wilson explains what RPI means and is this the year of the upsets?

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Language on mobility, settlement and governance with Professor Rita Wilson

Monash Arts

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2017 29:21

During the course of the twentieth century global migration flows have grown exponentially. Massive socio-political changes in the late 1980s and early 1990s, notably the fall of the Berlin wall and collapse of the Soviet block, and later the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, all contributed to the increased international movement of people. And with major political events come epistemological consequences – how do we think about citizenship and belonging today? What role does language play when entering a new place and how does this impact employment, governance and social cohesion? Professor Rita Wilson, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Associate Dean of Graduate Research at Monash University, carries an extensive research background in literary and cultural studies, with a focus on exploring translation processes that are core to the shaping of literary history, communication and society. Professor Wilson’s research investigates the forces behind the movement of literary texts and people, from aesthetic, linguistic and stylistic elements to social, political and economic drivers. Her research brings to light the effects of today’s interaction between mobility, migration and translation. As part of our Arts Researchers podcast series, we spoke with Professor Wilson on a number of her research projects and the impact they have on informing better policies, settlement services, international governance and social cohesion. We also covered the global research networks, industry partnerships and opportunities for research students in this area at Monash – the only university in Australia that offers a practice-based PhD in Interpreting and Translation Studies. For more information on doing a higher degree by research, visit https://arts.monash.edu/graduate-research

The Politics of Space: An Interview with Mabel Wilson

Being Human

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2017 38:19

An interview with Mabel Wilson, architect, designer, and professor of architecture at Columbia University. The interview focuses on Professor Wilson's life and career, including her 2012 book "Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums." The website for Who Builds Your Architecture?, which we discuss in the interview, can be found here: whobuilds.org

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Capitalism

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2015

Let’s Talk about – Capitalism/ Free Market with Professor Wilson and Moderated by Felice Gerwitz Capitalism/Free Market – HISTORICAL overview Woody shares a recap of the historical significance of capitalism and free market in the USA. This begins this sessions. We take a look at the Constitution: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate Commerce […] The post Capitalism appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.

Ep148 - David Sloan Wilson

Mixed Mental Arts

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2014 54:10

Darwin had a problem with bees. Understanding how evolution might work at the level of individuals was easy. Have an individual whose genes give them an advantage in resisting disease or avoiding predators and on average they will breed more and pass on more of their genes to the next generation. But bees and other social insects weren’t so easy. Kamikaze-like, bees will dive in and sting you, their barbs getting stuck in you and die to save the hive. Of course, when a human being sacrifices their life to save their child, that’s easy enough for evolution to explain. By sacrificing your life for your child, you are helping to ensure that your genes are passed on. But the bee that stings you at a picnic, can’t have children because those bees are sterile. In the Origin of Species, Darwin referred to sterile subgroups as the "one special difficulty, which at first appeared to me insuperable, and actually fatal to my theory.” Nowadays, evolutionary biologists have no problem providing an explanation for this behavior. In fact, the problem is that they have two competing explanations with explanations not just for bees but for how evolution makes sense of religion. Biologists like Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne argue that the bee gives its life because by defending the hive it is helping to pass on the genes of its closely related hive mates. They deny that natural selection can operate at the level of groups and so large human social organizations (like religion) have no function. Biologists like EO Wilson and today’s guest David Sloan Wilson argue that selection can happen not only at the level of individuals but also at the level of groups. If that’s the case, then our groupishness (including religion) are useful. As you can imagine, the idea that religion could be on balance or even sometimes useful is something that people like Dawkins take issue with. The consequences of this rift are beautifully summed up in Jon Haidt’s Righteous Mind: "To Dennett and Dawkins, religions are sets of memes that have undergone Darwinian selection. Like biological traits, religions are heritable, they mutate, and there is selection among these mutations. The selection occurs not on the basis of the benefits religions confer upon individuals or groups but on the basis of their ability to survive and reproduce themselves. Some religions are better than others at hijacking the human mind, burrowing in deeply, and then getting themselves transmitted to the next generation of host minds. Dennett opens Breaking the Spell with the story of a tiny parasite that commandeers the brains of ants, causing them to climb to the tops of blades of grass, where they can more easily be eaten by grazing animals. The behavior is suicide for the ant, but it’s adaptive for the parasite, which requires the digestive system of a ruminant to reproduce itself. Dennett proposes that religions survive because , like those parasites, they make their hosts do things that are bad for themselves (e.g., suicide bombing) but good for the parasite (e.g., Islam). Dawkins similarly describes religions as viruses. Just as a cold virus makes its host sneeze to spread itself, successful religions make their hosts expend precious resources to spread the “infection.” These analogies have clear implications for social change. If religion is a virus or a parasite that exploits a set of cognitive by-products for its benefit, not ours, then we ought to rid ourselves of it. Scientists , humanists, and the small number of others who have escaped infection and are still able to reason must work together to break the spell, lift the delusion, and bring about the end of faith.” To be clear, Professor Wilson is not saying that religion is here to stay. He is saying that our tendency towards groupishness (including religion) is an outcome of evolution and that in thinking about religion we have to recognize that. Once you understand that perspective, you begin to see how science and religion can finally start talking to each other. Professor Wilson is president of the Evolution Institute (http://evolution-institute.org ) and SUNY Distinguished Professor at Binghamton University. His books include Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society, Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way we Think About Our Lives, and The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time. His next book, titled Does Altruism Exist? will be published in 2015 by Yale University Press. The Books Professor Wilson mentioned were Complexity and the art of public policy by David Colander and Roland Kupers, Give and Take by Adam Grant and Evil Genes by Barbara Oakley.

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Current Issues – Agenda 21- Part Four

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2014

Professor Woodrow Wilson continues uncovering additional information about Agenda 21 in part four of the series. The full document regarding Agenda 21 is available online for you to read in it’s entirety. This document contains key points that Professor Wilson discusses, on this broadcast. Words that are familiar to all Americans who keep up with […] The post Current Issues – Agenda 21- Part Four appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.

Current Issues – Agenda 21- Part Three

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2014

Professor Woodrow Wilson introduces information Agenda 21 in part three of the series. The full document regarding Agenda 21 is available online for you to read in it’s entirety. This document contains key points that Professor Wilson discusses, on this broadcast. Words that are familiar to all Americans who keep up with politics and the […] The post Current Issues – Agenda 21- Part Three appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.

Current Issues – Agenda 21- Part Two

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2014

Professor Woodrow Wilson introduces information Agenda 21 in part one in the second part of what will now be a three part series. The full document regarding Agenda 21 is available online for you to read in it’s entirety. This document contains key points that Professor Wilson discusses, on this broadcast. Words that are familiar […] The post Current Issues – Agenda 21- Part Two appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.

Current Issues – Welfare System

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2014

Professor Woodrow Wilson introduces information about the Welfare System – he discusses the history and possible solutions. He also discusses current issues such as the governor of AZ who vetoed the bill to allow business owners to serve those they wanted, or not, depending on their religious convictions. In addition Professor Wilson adds information about […] The post Current Issues – Welfare System appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.

Session 4B - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

E.O. Wilson - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2014 53:55

Focus on solutions: Targeting and measuring success in conservation; ethical issues of close management of populations sizes; radical ideas for restoring habitats (get rid of lawns). Professor Wilson becomes cheerfully combative. The stakes are high.

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Session 3A - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

E.O. Wilson - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2014 62:18

Professor Wilson tells a rousing story of ecological recovery in Gorongosa National Park. and recounts his ongoing efforts to create a giant new national park in the southeast US, and a preservation corridor from Florida to Louisiana. The discussion of corridor biology concludes with a grand vision of connecting corridors until the entire US is boxed by preservation land.

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Session 1A - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

E.O. Wilson - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2014 54:05

Professor Wilson opens the seminar with introductions and discussion of his work on unexplored islands. Themes are introduced that will develop throughput the seminar: the primacy of species as a concept; the roles of morals, ethics, and values in conservation and biodiversity studies; the intersection of science and policy; the end of the anthropocene; and a first foray into the meaning of human existence.

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Session 1B - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

E.O. Wilson - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2014 59:54

Professor Wilson addresses careers, coaxes students to enter biodiversity studies, explains what that field will be and why it will be critically important in the future. Sell inspiration and resolve the human/wildlife conflict. Understand that solutions must be both scientific and values based.

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Session 2A - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

E.O. Wilson - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2014 65:48

The three tiers of biodiversity: ecosystems, species, genes. A deep discussion of taxonomy studies includes naming species after famous friends. Understanding ultimate and proximate causation in evolution and in ecosystem balance. Professor Wilson keeps up his challenge to his seminar to think rigorously about policy.

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Session 5B - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

E.O. Wilson - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2014 53:38

Professor Wilson retraces the themes that emerged during the seminar and forcefully addresses the meaning of human life. The meaning of life will be determined by evolutionary biologists, who are answering the questions, Where do we come from and What are we, and must contribute wisdom and values to the final question, where are we going?

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Session 5A - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

E.O. Wilson - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2014 60:00

Professor Wilson challenges the group: You have 15 minutes with President Obama in the Oval Office. Advise him on what to do next to save the environment. The conversation becomes a reprisal of the continuing theme of morals and values.

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Session 3B - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

E.O. Wilson - Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2014 53:56

Introduction of the precautionary principle: where the data are incomplete but the problem is real, don’t wait, fix it. Professor Wilson continues to challenge the seminar to take intellectual responsibility by formulating policy ideas.

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Debt Crisis

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2014

The debt crisis — is anyone listening? This session discusses one of the most pressing problems in Professor Wilson’s opinion that is undermining the US Economy here and abroad. Other issues are discussed as well! Please share this show – using the social media icons above with a friend! The post Debt Crisis appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.

Criminal Minds

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2014 63:35

What makes a criminal? Are they born or made? Professor Wilson examines the evidence: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/criminal-mindsHow do personality, social deprivation and upbringing affect criminality? Is crime due to economic need, a failure of conscience or a need for excitement?If genetic contributions or brain damage can be established should they be taken to reduce culpability? What is prison for and are there alternative punishments that are more effective? Can criminals be reformed, or simply contained?The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/criminal-mindsGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 1,500 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.ukTwitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollegeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege

American Family – Values – Freedom – Faith

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2014

What does the constitution have to do with it – allot! In this session Professor Wilson discusses the IRS attempt at regulating non-profit organizations such as the American Family Association in order to squelch fliers, tracks, and pamphlets with voting records and other kinds of handouts that help tax payers. Terminology such as “writ of […] The post American Family – Values – Freedom – Faith appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.

Income & Equality – Legalization of Pot – Impeach Obama

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2014

Professor Wilson tackles the current administration’s tactics to steer voters away from the failed roll out of the health care system by using distracting tactics such as “Income and Equality.” He discusses the current states and the legalization of pot and attempts by some to gather support for the impeachment of Obama. Play the audio […] The post Income & Equality – Legalization of Pot – Impeach Obama appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.

Sensory Multiculturalism in an East End Market; Cultural Passions

Thinking Allowed

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2014 27:54

Cultural passions - From a love of Proust to an enthusiasm for tennis and tarot readings; a diverse range of aesthetic pleasures excite human beings. Laurie Taylor talks to the cultural theorist and writer, Elizabeth Wilson, about the emotional commitment people bring to their enjoyment of both 'high' and 'low' culture. Professor Wilson analyses why such pleasures are sometimes seen as suspect; invoking, by turns, a fear of elitism as well a dislike of mass culture. Also, the sociologist, Alex Rhys-Taylor, charts a sensory journey into the heart of an East End Market. Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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Tax Payers will Subsidize Health Care & More Issues

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2013

This handout says it all – if the appalling events of the day aren’t enough to drive us to the antacids I don’t know what is… our trust lies in God and definitely not on the failed healthcare or the failure of lawmakers to block abortion providers. In this episode, Professor Wilson answers audience questions […] The post Tax Payers will Subsidize Health Care & More Issues appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.

Need to Know Debt Limit & Partisanship

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2013

History is being made and we are on the forefront with questions from our amazing live audience! Moderator, Felice Gerwitz hosts this session with presenter Professor Wilson. Professor Wilson begins with a recap of the events of the day as well the debt limit and situation with partisanship and the budget debts and limits. Handout […] The post Need to Know Debt Limit & Partisanship appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.

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Stalemate Continues …

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2013

History is being made as the stalemate continues! We are on the forefront with questions from our amazing live audience! Moderator, Felice Gerwitz hosts this session with Professor Wilson. Professor Wilson begins with a recap of the events of our government stalemate as well as an explanation of political terminology students will hear in the […] The post Stalemate Continues … appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.

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Whatever turns you on

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2012 49:56

How do sexual fantasies vary and how do they arise? How do they relate to unusual sexual practices such as fetishism, transvestism and sadomasochism? Are these predilections just harmless variations or is there a sinister side?This is part of Professor Wilson's series of lectures. The...

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The Pursuit of Happiness

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2011 48:54

What makes us happy? Is it a genetic trait that we are stuck with, or a product of events unfolding in our living? Does it help to be rich? What can be done to overcome set-backs and improve our sense of well being?This is part of Professor Wilson's series of lectures. The other...

Soothing the Savage Breast

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2011 48:06

Can music heal? For centuries its therapeutic virtues have been extolled. The various uses to which it is put are described and the scientific studies that evaluate its benefits. The possibility of music having socially damaging effects is also considered.This is part of Professor Wilson...

Jane Wilson Sept 16 2011

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2011 26:52

Dr. Jane Wilson loves the teaching-learning process and has had the great privilege of helping students of all ages experience the joy of learning. After teaching in elementary and junior high public schools, Jane served as an educational consultant in the area of leadership training for high school student leaders and faculty advisors. In this role Jane spoke at workshops, conferences, and school assemblies in 26 states and Canada. After obtaining her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, Jane began teaching and supervising student teachers in Teacher Education Programs at Azusa Pacific University, California State University at Channel Islands, and Chapman University. Before joining the Westmont faculty, Dr. Wilson served as Academic Dean for Providence Hall where she helped established a healthy and quality learning environment for Christian high school students in Santa Barbara. Much of Professor Wilson’s research and practice focuses on developing strategies and situations to enhance student’s intrinsic motivation to learn. Her great desire is to help Westmont student teacher candidates experience the joy that learning brings so that they feel empowered and equipped to promote intrinsic motivation in their future classrooms.

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Jane Wilson Sept 16 2011

Chapel 2011-2012 video

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2011 27:11

Dr. Jane Wilson loves the teaching-learning process and has had the great privilege of helping students of all ages experience the joy of learning. After teaching in elementary and junior high public schools, Jane served as an educational consultant in the area of leadership training for high school student leaders and faculty advisors. In this role Jane spoke at workshops, conferences, and school assemblies in 26 states and Canada. After obtaining her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, Jane began teaching and supervising student teachers in Teacher Education Programs at Azusa Pacific University, California State University at Channel Islands, and Chapman University. Before joining the Westmont faculty, Dr. Wilson served as Academic Dean for Providence Hall where she helped established a healthy and quality learning environment for Christian high school students in Santa Barbara. Much of Professor Wilson’s research and practice focuses on developing strategies and situations to enhance student’s intrinsic motivation to learn. Her great desire is to help Westmont student teacher candidates experience the joy that learning brings so that they feel empowered and equipped to promote intrinsic motivation in their future classrooms.

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A "Sing In" with Gilbert and Sullivan