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How can TOB help me heal spiritually from anorexia? Why does the Church teach against contraceptives? Is watching Game of Thrones okay? As a woman who has struggled with pornography, how do I heal? Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in which Theology of the Body Institute Director Christopher West and his beloved wife Wendy share their humor and wisdom, answering questions about marriage, relationships, life, and the Catholic faith, all in light of John Paul II’s beautiful teachings on the Theology of the Body. This week’s questions: Q1: I’ve been physically and mentally recovering from anorexia for awhile, and I’m realizing that my soul needs healing, too. Is there anything in Theology of the Body that can help me understand self-worth and self-love. Are these things God wants for me? Q2: I grew up in a church environment where the use of contraceptives was not questioned morally at all. I’d love to hear you explain a little more about how the use of contraceptives relates to TOB both in Christian marriage and in secular culture. Q3: I’m struggling to decide whether or not to watch the new season of Game of Ghrones. I know that it contains pornographic scenes, and while I skip them, I feel guilty whenever I watch it. I hate telling people I’ve seen it because I feel they’ll be drawn to do the same, and it may cause them to sin. Q4: As a female who has struggled with pornography, my view on sex has been distorted. While I know that sex is good on a head level, how can I more fully understand this on a heart level? Submit your question at AskChristopherWest.com (http://www.askchristopherwest.com). Resources mentioned this week: The Heart of Perfection by Colleen Carol Campbell (https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Perfection-Saints-Taught-Perfect/dp/1982106166) The Body Reveals God by Katrina Zeno (https://www.amazon.com/Body-Reveals-God-Zeno-Katrina/dp/0974828815) Theology of the Body in One Hour by Jason Evert (https://www.amazon.com/Theology-Body-Hour-Jason-Evert/dp/1944578846) Books by Christopher West: Theology of the Body for Beginners (http://corproject.com/tobb/) Eclipse of the Body (https://shop.corproject.com/collections/books/products/eclipse-of-the-body-how-we-lost-the-meaning-of-sex-gender-marriage-family-and-how-to-reclaim-it) The Good News about Sex and Marriage (https://shop.corproject.com/collections/books/products/good-news-about-sex-and-marriage) TOB1 September Course (https://corproject.securechkout.com/tob1westcleveland) Find Christopher West on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/cwestofficial) and Instagram (http://www.instagram.com/cwestofficial). Discover the Theology of the Body Institute (http://www.tobinstitute.org). If you enjoy the podcast, help us out by writing a review (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ask-christopher-west/id1448699486). Thanks for listening! Christopher and Wendy hope their advice is helpful to you, but they are not licensed counseling professionals. If you are dealing with serious issues, please consult our list of trusted professionals (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hIV5v0vJVxMFuaKyAtDreWwv_5218Rqw/view?usp=sharing). Featuring music by Mike Mangione (https://www.mikemangione.com/). Produced by Sounder and Key (http://www.sounderandkey.com).
Podcast with Host: Jai Shukla & Guest: Alexandra Schieren Q1 – What got you into motorsports and how did you turn that passion into a business? It was by accident in the mid-’90s when Alexandra Schieren saw an ad in the newspaper. It was a steep learning curve and that felt it suited her. Q2 – What was your educational background? Languages and economics. Alexandra was not made to work in PR, but learned by doing and got additional training over the years. It’s really about common sense. Q3 – How is your PR agency different to others as you recently set one up? It’s hers and Alexandra Schieren PR has her own personal touch to it. Being in motorsports for long and in media, for long she knew a lot of media and her client typically would like to be better known so it made sense. Or it’s to manage their reputation which are two different aspects to it. Q4 – As a female in a male-dominated sport - how does it influence the way you work with people? Alexandra Schieren is not mad about the sport and she has kept a distance - this allows me to keep a neutral eye.That helped when she worked with FIA. Alexandra kept her favorites to herself.It’s easy to stand out which is an advantage too. Q5 - How did you know when it was the right time to start your business? During the time while I was at FIA. When the time was right was about 5 years ago. I had enough of traveling and being away from home - 6 months at a time. Going in and out of hotels. And then finally the trigger point was during 1 winter I looked at the picture and thought it looked familiar but it was a picture from the previous year and that’s when I knew. Q6 - How is it different to work for yourself compared to when you are working for others? Before you certain types of customers with a specific interest. Now it’s more all-rounded types of work for associations, and meeting the needs of the clients. Q7 - Who are the most troublesome people to work with? I only work with people I get a good feeling with. This freedom allows me to be picky. I’ve been very lucky. Q8 – PR has many facets - how do you manage it? Each client has different needs. It’s about managing their needs. There are different elements - company elements, sponsoring events, SM, etc. Q9 - Where do you get fulfillment from? When they are happy. Managing a successful event. And then it’s also about the journalists picking up on your stories. It’s hard to know if the circuit got attention directly because of your work. Q10 – Who have you worked with and how do they differ? Pirelli, FIA - they all have different needs. One interesting one was with IndyCar - they wanted to do a push in Europe. This was just very interesting for me - as it was fun to see different countries and events being amalgamated to create something new. Q11 How does crisis management work? I’ve been lucky to not have had to deal with that. Not a major one anyway. This may be because of the prevention of them in the first place but when I worked for the FIA - my boss had an issue with women - and that landed on the front page. There is also dealing with accidents...and it’s hard from emotional management. Tires which exploded was a bad one too. This was my job to understand what happened. This was very bad for the tire manufacturer and it’s important. Q12 - By working in different parts of motorsport - does it help? In smaller formula - you have to get more media coverage whereas Formula 1 - it’s about managing it. It’s not harder just different. Journalists are hard to sell for lower formulae. Q13 - Your interview with Will Buxton - two sides of the coin journalism and PR? They are complementary and help each other in an ideal world. Your side of the story is different from the one they want to hear or write about. The information should never be a lie. As you will be found out. Q14 - What can PR do for a client or a company as many may not understand its importance? Yes, many people don’t understand it and therefore they think I don’t need it. An example is someone who wants to drive and not be in the limelight. So then it comes down to the fact that 5000 other drivers want your position and why should someone pick you and that’s where PR comes in. It’s about finding your USP and ensure everyone knows it. PR is about making sure what you want people to know about you is what they do know about you.
Should there be a Theology of the Body dating site? Do people in committed marriages need to understand TOB? What about people who are really struggling with life issues? Christopher and Wendy plunge into these questions and more on the first episode of the Ask Christopher West Podcast. Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in which Theology of the Body Institute Director Christopher West and his beloved wife Wendy share their humor and wisdom, answering questions about marriage, relationships, life, and the Catholic faith, all in light of John Paul II’s beautiful teachings on the Theology of the Body. This week’s questions: Q1: If you launched a TOB dating site, what features would you want included? Q2: Do I still need to learn about TOB if I’m in a committed, monogamous marriage? Q3: How do you share the beautiful message of TOB with people who are held up with legitimate struggles? For example, those who are in poverty or very ill? Q4: As a person who never received affirmation when I was young, how can I move forward to understanding that God knows, loves, and desires relationship with me? Submit your question at AskChristopherWest.com (https://www.askchristopherwest.com). Register for Christopher's free mini-course: What Do You Want? (https://community.theologyofthebody.com/freecourse) Resources mentioned this week: Humanae Vitae - Pope Paul VI (https://w2.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae.html) Find Christopher West on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/cwestofficial) and Instagram (http://www.instagram.com/cwestofficial). Discover the Theology of the Body Institute (http://www.tobinstitute.org). If you enjoy the podcast, help us out by writing a review (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ask-christopher-west/id1448699486). Thanks for listening! Produced by Sounder and Key (http://www.sounderandkey.com).
Highlights 100 Years ago: About President Woodrow Wilson | @01:45 Special Guest: John Milton Cooper Jr. | @07:45 War in The Sky: Introducing General Billy Mitchell | @15:45 American Emerges: Baseball on the Polo Grounds - Dr. Edward Lengel | @16:40 European view of the war: Mike Shuster | @22:10 Special Commemorative Coin and Service Medallion Collector Sets | @27:05 A Century In The Making: Joe Weishaar | @28:25 Speaking WWI: Acronym flips RAMC and REPS | @34:25 Spotlight In The Media: Director Peter Jackson | @35:45 100C/100M: The City of Nitro, West Virginia - Rich Hively and Mayor Dave Casebolt | @38:50 WW1 War Tech: Tankgewehr - David O’Neal | @44:45 The Buzz: Social Media - Katherine Akey | @51:05 ----more---- Opening Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - episode #56 - It’s about WW1 THEN - what was happening 100 years ago this week - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration. Today is January 26th, 2018 and our guests for this week include: John Milton Cooper Jr. giving deeper insight into President Woodrow Wilson Dr. Ed Lengel, with our new segment: America Emerges - Military stories from WWI Mike Shuster, from the great war project blog looking at growing discontent in Europe Joe Weishaar in our “A century in the Making” - an Eagle Scout’s perspective Rich Hively and Mayor Dave Casebolt from the WW1 memorial restoration effort in Nitro, West Virginia David O’Neal and the restoration of a WW1 anti-tank gun And Katherine Akey, with some selections from the centennial of WWI in social media All that and more --- this week -- on WW1 Centennial News -- which is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission, the Pritzker Military Museum and Library and the Starr foundation. I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the Commission and your host. Welcome to the show. [MUSIC] Preface [MUSIC] Woodrow Wilson - an academic and learned man, president of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910 - a progressive Democrat seeking and winning the governorship of New Jersey - then running for and being elected to his first term as president of the United states in 1912 - two years before war broke out in Europe… His progressive agenda and accomplishments in his first term are near legendary. His personal life is equally dynamic, losing his first wife to illness in 1914, and barely more than a year later - re-marrying while still in office. By his second term campaign in 1916 - the war in Europe was in full swing, the Germans had sunk the Lusitania, and Wilson ran for office on a platforms of “America First” - and “He kept us out of the war”. Within months of being sworn in to a second term, he leads the nation to war and into an unprecedented transformation, politically, legally, economically, socially and Internationally. Wilson takes broad powers and wields sledge hammer transformations, nationalizes industries, quashes freedoms, and when congress does not do his bidding, used executive orders to move the nation into the war effort. Earlier this month 100 years ago, Wilson presents an agenda for a new international world order - instantly thrusting America into a new role as a world leader. With that as an overview, let’s jump into our wayback machine and go back 100 years to the third week of January 1918 in the war that changed the world! World War One THEN 100 Year Ago This Week [MUSIC SOUND EFFECT TRANSITION] It is mid-january 1918. With the Wilson administration ruling as much as governing - some seek to depose his power. Once such incident takes place this week. [SOUND EFFECT] Dateline: January 20, 1918 A headline in the New York Times reads: War Cabinet Bill Ready For Senate; To give control to council of three… Backing Chamberlain’s Stand - Senate Military Committee Demands Reorganization of War work… This is what is happening…. Oregon’s Democratic Senator George Earle Chamberlain, who serves on the Senate Military Affairs Committee, makes a speech in New York and states: “the military establishment of America has fallen down because of inefficiency in every bureau and department of the government of the United States... “ And he introduces a bill into the Senate that would retake the powers of the executive and the cabinet back into the legislative branch - specifically the Senate. The White House and the Wilson Administration fires back... [SOUND EFFECT] Dateline: January 22, 1918 From the headline of the Official Bulletin - The government’s war gazette published by George Creel at the order of the President. President Wilson Answers Criticism by Senator Chamberlain Concerning Departmental Management of War - Claims he was not consulted on proposed legislation And the story includes: "When the President's attention was called to the speech made by Senator Chamberlain at a luncheon in New York on Saturday, he immediately inquired of Senator Chamberlain whether he had been correctly reported, and upon ascertaining from the Senator that he had been, the President felt it his duty to make the following statement:" [WILSON] Senator Chamberlain's statement as to the present inaction and ineffectiveness of the Government is an astonishing and absolutely unjustifiable distortion of the truth. As a matter of fact, the War Department has performed a task of unparallelled magnitude and difficulty with extraordinary promptness and efficiency. There have been delays and disappointments and partial miscarriages of plans, all of which have been drawn into the foreground and exaggerated by the investigations which have been in progress since the Congress assembled-investigators --- these drew indispensable officials of the department constantly away from their work and officers from their commands and contributed a great deal to such delay and confusion as had inevitably arisen. But, by comparison with what has been accomplished, these things, much as they were to be regretted, were Insignificant, and no mistake has been made which has been repeated. President Wilson closes with: My association and constant conference with the secretary of War have tought me to regard him as one of the ablest public officials I have ever known. It will soon be learned whether HE or his critics understand the business at hand. To say, as Senator Chamberlain did, that there is inefficiency in every department and bureau of the Government is to show such ignorance of actual conditions as to make it impossible to attach any importance to his statement. I am bound to infer that the statement sprang out of opposition to the administration's whole policy rather than out of any serious intention to reform its practice. John cooper interview President Woodrow Wilson is truly one of the most remarkable leaders this nation has had. In order to help us get to know him better we have invited John Milton Cooper Jr, an American historian, author, educator, and Former Senior Scholar at the Wilson Center to speak with us today. Welcome, John! [greetings] [Q1: John, Woodrow Wilson is considered one of the greatest American President ever - Was he? And why? ] [Q2: setup John.. Wilson seems like a bundles of contrasting ideas - He campaigns to keep America out of war - but then leads a declaration of war and fields on of the most intense war build ups and efforts in our history. He wants America to fight for freedom and liberty as he nationalized industries, gags dissent and attacks freedom of speech. ============= Q: How do all these contrasting ideas reconcile? ==============] [Q3: This is a man who had a huge effect on the nation and indeed on the world - what would you say his most remarkable achievement was as a President?] [Q4: As we hear the ongoing story of WWI on this podcast, what else should be understand about Wilson to help us keep it all --- and him in context?] [goodbyes] John Milton Cooper Jr is an American historian, author, and educator. Links to his biography of President Wilson and to the Wilson Center are in the podcast notes. Link: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/john-milton-cooper https://www.amazon.com/Woodrow-Wilson-John-Milton-Cooper/dp/0307277909 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F0CEED7133FE433A25752C2A9679C946996D6CF http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F02E2D6133FE433A25751C2A9679C946996D6CF http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B02E3DF103FE433A25757C2A9679C946996D6CF http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=950CEEDF103FE433A25756C2A9679C946996D6CF http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9505E1D8143AEF33A25754C2A9679C946996D6CF http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E02E1D8143AEF33A25754C2A9679C946996D6CF http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A07E4D7143AEF33A25754C2A9679C946996D6CF War in the Sky This week in War in the sky - we want to introduce you to General Billy Mitchell… a pretty extraordinary man. As World War 1 broke out, Billy Mitchell recognized the importance of aviation. So in 1916, he learned to fly on his own nickel. Heading to Europe, On January 20, 1918, Mitchell, now a Colonel - was promoted to Chief of the Air Service of the First Army. Colonel Mitchell found himself in command of more than 1,500 British, French and American aircraft - the largest "air force" ever assembled. We will learn more about this leader and flyer over the coming months - a man who became the chief of air services this month 100 years ago in the war in the sky. See the podcast notes to learn more. Link: http://www.mitchellgallery.org/gen-mitchell/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/the-billy-mitchell-court-martial-136828592/ https://www.army.mil/article/33680/william_billy_mitchell_the_father_of_the_united_states_air_force America Emerges: Military Stories from WW1 Welcome to the second installment of our new series: America Emerges: Military Stories from WWI --- with Military Historian, author and storyteller, Dr. Edward Lengel. Hi Ed [Exchange greeting] Ed - Your story this weeks rolls us back to September 1917 when America celebrated National Draft Day - the draft not being the most popular new law of the land - In New York there was a baseball game. We look forward to hearing the story! [ED LENGEL] Ed.. What are you going to tell us about next week? [ED LENGEL] Ed Lengel is an American military historian, author, and our new segment host for America Emerges: Military Stories from WWI. There are links in the podcast notes to Ed’s post about baseball? and his website as an author. Links:http://www.edwardlengel.com/doughboys-baseball-classic-game-polo-grounds-1917/ https://www.facebook.com/EdwardLengelAuthor/ http://www.edwardlengel.com/about/ [SOUND EFFECT] Great War Project Mike: Your story this week is about how the war is being considered in Europe as we roll into 1918. What is the headline? [MIKE POST] Mike Shuster from the Great War Project blog. LINK: http://greatwarproject.org/2018/01/21/americans-now-in-german-gun-sites/ [SOUND EFFECT] The Great War Channel For videos on WWI go see our friends at “The Great War Channel” on Youtube. This week’s new episodes include Assassination attempt on Lenin Central powers occupation of Italy British Pistols of WW1 And finally - Road Trips 2018 Next month, we have invited the host of The Great Wall Channel, Indy Neidell to join us and talk about how hosting this youtube channel for the past 4+ years has affected him… Meanwhile - Follow the link in the podcast notes or search for “the great war” on youtube. Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar World War One NOW It is time to fast forward into the present with WW1 Centennial News NOW - [SOUND EFFECT] this section is not about history, but rather - it explores what is happening NOW to commemorate the centennial of the War that changed the world! Commission News: Collective Sets In commission news: As we mentioned last week, the US mint has released a special 2018 WWI commemorative silver dollar - but also -- they created WWI service medallions commemorating the five military branches that fought in WWI - The Army, the Navy, The Marine Corps, the brand new Air Corps - later to become the Airforce, and the Coast Guard. These five special collector sets of Commemorative Silver Dollar and Service medallions are being minted in very limited quantities and the only time in history - ever - that you will be able to buy them is between RIGHT NOW and February 20th, 2018… So you have less than a month to snag a piece of history with a collectors set - get one, get all five, but get them now. Go to WW1CC.org/coin that is / c o i n… or click on the link in the podcast notes. If you are listening to this podcast, clearly you already have some interest or connection to the centennial of WWI - this is the remembrance of this centennial you will want to keep and pass on to the next generation. But you have to do it NOW. link:www.ww1cc.org/Coin https://catalog.usmint.gov/coins/commemoratives/ A century in the making - America’s WW1 Memorial in Washington DC It’s time for our new 2018 segment: A century in the making - America’s WW1 Memorial in Washington DC. As our regular listeners know, we are building a national WWI Memorial at Pershing Park in the nation’s capitol. It’s a big project. It’s complicated. It’s hard. It’s been a long time coming. So in this segment we are bringing you along on an insider’s journey that explores this grand undertaking, the adventure, and the people behind it. Joe Weishaar - is our brilliant young visionary, who won the international design competition for this memorial -- He is also an Eagle Scout… a designation that just predates WWI. In fact, it turns out that the first Eagle Scout award was given to scout Arthur Rose Eldred in 1912. Now - Eldred actually goes on to join the Navy during WW1. He serves on convoys in the Atlantic and on a submarine chaser in the Mediterranean, surviving both a sinking ship and the Spanish Flu. Last week, Joe spoke at the Boy Scout’s annual midwest regional fundraiser. As an Eagle Scout himself, Joe helps us continue to strengthen the connection between the Boy Scouts and WW1. Welcome, Joe! [greetings] [Joe: when you spoke at the event last week - was it scouts, scout leadership or others? Who was the audience?] [How were you and your story received? [Joe: Do you think that your scouting experience influenced you or prepared you in entering and ultimately prevailing and winning the international design competition for the National WWI Memorial?] [Do you think the scouts are aware of the connections of scouting and WWI?] Something interesting came up this week in our research about WWI 100 years ago… Let me read you an excerpt from the January 21st, 1918 issue of the New York Times… The headline reads: WAR TASK FOR BOY SCOUTS Will Be Dispatch Bearers for Public Information Committee And the story reads: President Wilson has sent the following letter to Colin H. Livingstone, President of the Scout’s National Council: My Dear Mr. Livingstone: I desire to entrust the Boy Scouts of America with a new and important commission - to make them the government dispatch bearers in carrying to the homes of their community the pamphlets on the war prepared by the committee for Public Information. The excellent services performed by the Boy Scouts in the past encourages me to believe that this new task will be cheerfully and faithfully discharged. Your sincerely, President Woodrow Wilson http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9801E7D6133FE433A25752C2A9679C946996D6CF [Joe - any thoughts or comments on the story?] [goodbyes] Joe Weishaar is the winning designer of the international design competition for National WW1 Memorial in DC - The design lead for the project …. and an Eagle Scout! We are going to continue to bring you an insider’s view with stories about the epic undertaking to create America’s WWI memorial in our nation’s capital. Learn more at ww1cc.org/memorial Link: www.ww1cc.org/memorial http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/3968-designer-of-national-wwi-memorial-visits-joplin-for-scouting-event.html [SOUND EFFECT] Speaking WW1 And now for our feature “Speaking World War 1” - Where we explore the words & phrases that are rooted in the war --- Soldiers in war treasure the personal effects they carry with them into battle-- photographs of loved ones, letters from home, trench art they spent hours creating, cigarettes, and souvenirs found on the battlefield. It’s their precious connection to the OTHER reality…. In the heat of battle, it’s easy to misplace or lose your trinkets, especially when a soldier is wounded and gets moved from the front by stretcher bearers and other men of the medical services. For the British in WWI, with typical english wrye humor - they renamed their Royal Army Medical Corps - the RAMC to - Rob All My Comrades! They gave a similar treatment to their mail services - the Royal Engineers Postal Services - the REPS - they got recast as postal pilferers with REPS - Rob Every Poor Soldier. Trench humor... Rob All My Comrades - and Rob Every Poor Soldier - recast acronyms from the trenches of WWI and this week’s speaking WWI phrases - See the podcast notes to learn more! link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nicknames_of_British_Army_regiments [SOUND EFFECT] Spotlight in the Media For our Spotlight in The Media section we have an exciting story this week. England’s Imperial War Museum has teamed up with famed Director Peter Jackson and asked him how he would tell the story of WWI. The director of the Lord of The Rings trilogy took on the challenge and announced the new project this week. Here is Peter Jackson speaking about telling the WWI story in a new and innovative way. [Peter Jackson interview] Follow the link in the podcast notes to see some sample footage of what Peter Jackson was talking about and to learn more about the project. Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePxpbDmykD4 https://www.facebook.com/iwm.london/videos/10155880426025479/ http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/peter-jackson-world-war-one-film-ww1-1202670953/ [SOUND EFFECT] 100 Cities/100 Memorials Moving on to our 100 Cities / 100 Memorials segment about the $200,000 matching grant challenge to rescue and focus on our local WWI memorials. This week we are profiling the Living Memorial to WW1 in Nitro, West Virginia -- This project is in the 2nd round of grant application now being reviewed. With us tell us about their city and their WWI project is Rich Hively, president of the Nitro Historic Commission and Dave Casebolt, Mayor of the City of Nitro Welcome gentlemen! [greetings] [Mayor Casebolt, why do you call the city of Nitro a “Living Memorial to WW1” and where does the name Nitro come from?] [Rich, what are you proposing for the 100 Cities / 100 Memorials program?] [It sounds like a fascinating place - If I come to the city of Nitro - what will my experience be? ] [Thank you so much for being with us today!] [goodbyes] Rich Hively is president of Nitro Historic Commission and Dave Casebolt is Mayor of the city of Nitro, West Virginia. Learn more about the 100 Cities/100 Memorials project, and the Living WW1 Memorial in Nitro, by visiting the link at the podcast notes. Link: www.ww1cc.org/100memorials https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/nitro-to-build-world-war-i-memorial-park/article_5123ba42-d88e-55a7-aeb6-76ad82b248a1.html http://historyofnitro.com/ http://wchsnetwork.com/city-of-nitro-installs-wwi-doughboy-statue-at-new-living-memorial-park/ Link: www.ww1cc.org/100cities WW1 War Tech This week we starting another new segment for 2018, WW1 War Tech. We so frequently come across technology from the war that is utterly fascinating, and we look forward to sharing some of these technological curiosities with you -- not just weapons but also medical, communications and other tech that sprang up at that time. But today - it’s all about a “bigger than an elephant gun” shoulder fired german behemoth designed to … shoot tanks! With us is David L. O’Neal, creator of the “WWI Preservation Collection”, who very recently finished restoring this 1918 Tankgewehr, or Tank Gun! Welcome, David! [greetings] [To start, Before we get to this mean Mauser - how did you get into restoring WW1 era machines?] [Tell us about the 1918 Mauser -- how did you come across the one that you restored, and what makes this a unique and special tech of the era?] [On your website, you can see many images of the gun at every stage of repair and rebuild -- tell us about the process? Did you use any high tech to restore the WWI tech?] [Audience appeal to the restoration] [What happens to the Mauser now?] [Last quick question - What is your next project? ] [goodbyes] David L. O’Neal is the creator of the WWI Preservation Collection. Learn more about the Collection, and view images from the Tankgewehr restoration, by following the link in the podcast notes. Link: http://www.ww1history.com/parking-lot.html The Buzz - WW1 in Social Media Posts And that brings us to the buzz - the centennial of WW1 this week in social media with Katherine Akey - Katherine, what do you have for us this week? Hi Theo! Atlas Obscura Both of our stories this week take us down into the trenches. First, we’ll head over to Atlas Obscura to an article about a rare example of a well preserved World War One trench. The trench is part of the British lines in Sanctuary Wood, also known as Hill 62. The Belgian Farmer who once owned the land returned to it after the war and chose to leave the trenches as he found them. Sanctuary Wood now operates as a memorial and museum. When you visit you can climb down into the ruins of the original trenches, and the museum includes many items the farmer found and collected over the years on the property: rifles encrusted with mud, German steel helmets riddled with bullet holes, and a collection of period stereoscope photographs of the battlefield. See images of the trenches, dugouts and shell holes by visiting the link in the podcast notes. link:https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sanctuary-wood-museum School Maneuvers Lastly for the week, we’ll head to Kent, Ohio, where school children recently got a very hands-on lesson about WW1. Armed with homemade cardboard pistols, rifles and machine guns, (and a few snowballs here and there), ninth-grade students of Theodore Roosevelt High School waged a mock battle complete with generals barking orders and medics running over to attend to the “wounded”, dragging them away from the battle on sleds over the snow. This exercise was a first for the school, involving 50 advanced world history students divided into French and German forces. Each student received a card with their role and tasks to execute during the simulation--and after. Generals who designed battle plans and fortifications would have to write condolence letters for lost troops. Soldiers would pen journals and medics would record their cases and actions, while journalists would assemble a newspaper account of the action and interviews. After the battle, the students enjoyed hot chocolate and genuine Army MREs -- meals-ready-to-eat. Read more about this unique project by following the link in the podcast notes. That’s it this week for the Buzz! link:http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/01/cold_lessons_of_trench_warfare.html Outro Thank you for listening to another episode of WW1 Centennial News. We also want to thank our guests... John Milton Cooper Jr, author, educator and historian Ed Lengel, military historian, author and storyteller Mike Shuster curator for the Great War Project Blog Joe Weishaar, architect and National WW1 Memorial designer Rich Hively from the WW1 Living memorial in Nitro, West Virginia David O’Neal, creator of the WWI Preservation Collection Katherine Akey, the shows line producer and the commission's social media director… And I am Theo Mayer - your host. The US World War One Centennial Commission was created by Congress to honor, commemorate and educate about WW1. Our programs are to-- inspire a national conversation and awareness about WW1; this podcast is a part of that…. Thank you! We are bringing the lessons of the 100 years ago into today's classrooms; We are helping to restore WW1 memorials in communities of all sizes across our country; and of course we are building America’s National WW1 Memorial in Washington DC. We want to thank commission’s founding sponsor the Pritzker Military Museum and Library and the Starr foundation for their support. The podcast can be found on our website at ww1cc.org/cn on iTunes and google play ww1 Centennial News, and on Amazon Echo or other Alexa enabled devices. Just say: Alexa: Play W W One Centennial News Podcast. Our twitter and instagram handles are both @ww1cc and we are on facebook @ww1centennial. Thank you for joining us. And don’t forget to share the stories you are hearing here today about the war that changed the world! [music] REPS - Royal Engineers Postal Service --- OR Really Exceptions Podcast Stories! I love acronyms! So long!