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In this episode we discussed the latest updates on the coding and reimbursement for SIJ Fusion. Our guest, Dr. Douglas Beall, talked about his experience with the different approaches of SIJ fusion therapies. We also discussed where the SIJ fusion space may be headed in the future.  Host, Patrick Buchanan, MD: Dr. Buchanan is double board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine. His goal is to help his patients get their life back by managing their pain and focus on things they love and enjoy. https://www.californiapaindoctors.com/patrick-buchanan-m-d/ https://www.instagram.com/patdbmd/?hl=en Host, Timothy Deer, MD: Dr. Deer is the president and CEO of the Spine and Nerve Centers of the Virginias. Dr. Deer has led a revolution in interventional spine and nerve care by teaching thousands of physicians an algorithmic approach to care including methods that are less invasive at a lower risk for complications. https://centerforpainrelief.com/about/tim-deer-md/ https://twitter.com/doctdeer?lang=en https://www.instagram.com/timdeer30a/?hl=en Guest, Douglas Beall, MD: Dr. Beall attended medical school at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, and completed his residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Following residency, he was Chief of Interventional Services at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas. He then completed a fellowship in Musculoskeletal Radiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he was trained in interventional spine techniques before returning to the US Air Force as Division Chief of Musculoskeletal Radiology. Following his service as a Major in the US Air Force Dr. Beall was chief of Musculoskeletal Radiology and Fellowship Director at the University of Oklahoma prior to entering private practice as the Chief of Services. http://drdouglasbeall.com/ About ASPN: ASPN was created to bring the top minds in the fields of pain and neuroscience together. ASPN has a mission to improve education, highlight scientific curiosity, establish best practice, and elevate each other in a quest to improve the field of pain and neuroscience. All initiatives of ASPN are dedicated to improving patient outcomes, education, research, and innovation. ASPN's website and social links: https://aspnpain.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCixMNhEtOiRm1aQmDWtzxmg https://www.instagram.com/aspn_painneuro/ https://www.facebook.com/PainNeuro https://www.linkedin.com/in/aspn/ https://twitter.com/aspn_painneuro Our sponsors: Saluda Medical: Saluda is the first to directly measure the spinal cord's physiologic response to stimulation. A 10+ year journey since the first ECAP measurement to transform the science and practice of SCS using Evoked Compound Action Potentials (ECAPs) to pioneer smart neuromodulation therapy. The Evoke® System listens and responds to each patient's neural signature.  https://www.saludamedical.com/  

Gary and Shannon kick off the show with a recap of the Dodgers' recent game against the Detroit Tigers. They then discuss the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar, which has resulted in significant casualties and damage. The conversation shifts to the lockdown at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas following reports of an active shooter. Additionally, they share insights on Vice President Vance's trip to Greenland, highlighting intriguing facts about the region. The hour wraps up with a discussion on the 'Tesla Takedown' protest aimed at impacting Tesla's stock price.

Starting us off tonight is Tori in New Jersey, sharing a UFO sighting from 2014 in a town in Wiltshire, UK. She witnessed a huge, round metal object above some houses. The object was silent and stationary; the experience scared the person she was with enough for him to run back inside, extremely scared, leaving her there alone and feeling uneasy, as she had no idea what she was looking at.Then we move onto Tim in Ohio, whose experience occurred at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas between Christmas and New Year of 1992. He was doing his rounds at the base in the early hours when he saw a spinning ball-type object about 200 feet over the runway.More information on this episode on the podcast website:https://ufochroniclespodcast.com/ep-319-a-wiltshire-sighting-sheppard-afb/Follow and Subscribe on X to get ad free episodesX: https://x.com/UFOchronpodcast/Want to share your encounter on the show?Email: UFOChronicles@gmail.comOr Fill out Guest Form:https://forms.gle/uGQ8PTVRkcjy4nxS7Follow and Subscribe on X to get ad free episodesX: https://x.com/UFOchronpodcast/Podcast Merchandise:https://www.teepublic.com/user/ufo-chronicles-podcastHelp Support UFO CHRONICLES by becoming a Patron:https://patreon.com/UFOChroniclespodcastAll Links for Podcast:https://linktr.ee/UFOChroniclesPodcastThank you for listening!Like share and subscribe it really helps me when people share the show on social media, it means we can reach more people and more witnesses and without your amazing support, it wouldn't be possible.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ufo-chronicles-podcast--3395068/support.

Starting us off tonight is Tori in New Jersey, sharing a UFO sighting from 2014 in a town in Wiltshire, UK. She witnessed a huge, round metal object above some houses. The object was silent and stationary; the experience scared the person she was with enough for him to run back inside, extremely scared, leaving her there alone and feeling uneasy, as she had no idea what she was looking at.Then we move onto Tim in Ohio, whose experience occurred at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas between Christmas and New Year of 1992. He was doing his rounds at the base in the early hours when he saw a spinning ball-type object about 200 feet over the runway.More information on this episode on the podcast website:https://ufochroniclespodcast.com/ep-319-a-wiltshire-sighting-sheppard-afb/Follow and Subscribe on X to get ad free episodesX: https://x.com/UFOchronpodcast/Want to share your encounter on the show?Email: UFOChronicles@gmail.comOr Fill out Guest Form:https://forms.gle/uGQ8PTVRkcjy4nxS7Follow and Subscribe on X to get ad free episodesX: https://x.com/UFOchronpodcast/Podcast Merchandise:https://www.teepublic.com/user/ufo-chronicles-podcastHelp Support UFO CHRONICLES by becoming a Patron:https://patreon.com/UFOChroniclespodcastAll Links for Podcast:https://linktr.ee/UFOChroniclesPodcastThank you for listening!Like share and subscribe it really helps me when people share the show on social media, it means we can reach more people and more witnesses and without your amazing support, it wouldn't be possible.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ufo-chronicles-podcast--3395068/support.

When a master CFII/ATP trades right rudder lessons for a seat in an Air Force T-38 Talon, you know it's going to be good. Nathan Ballard expected a polite tour of Sheppard Air Force Base but instead found himself pulling 6Gs during actual bomb runs at 375 knots. While he's up there burning through 4,000 pounds of fuel faster than Ted burns in a year flying his "egg," the Air Force instructor is casually critiquing bombing accuracy like he's discussing the weather. "I thought this was going to be a press visit, but they said 'we're not going to just burn up gas to let you take a look - you're integrating into a real training mission,'" Nathan recalls, shortly before learning what it feels like when your vision decides to peace out at 6Gs. Between learning to eject from a supersonic jet and watching a civilian plane mosey through their military airspace like it's a Sunday drive, this master instructor brought back some serious pro tips from the world's best aviators. Pure midlife pilot gold. Mentioned on the show: * Nathan Ballard's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@NathanBallardSaferFlying * Nathan's first military flying video: "What happens when a SMALL PLANE flies through MILITARY AIRSPACE?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_5m69KCKs * WDR - Barrow County Airport, Winder Georgia: https://www.airnav.com/airport/WDR * Sheppard Air Force Base: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheppard_Air_Force_Base * Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program: https://www.sheppard.af.mil/Library/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/367537/euro-nato-joint-jet-pilot-training-program-enjjpt/ * T-38 Talon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_T-38_Talon * AOPA Air Safety Institute: Accident Case Study: Final Approach: https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/online-learning/accident-case-studies/final-approach

This episode is sponsored by MagicSchool AI. If you're looking for a solution for AI in education, check out MagicSchool AI.  MagicSchool is the leading AI Platform in education with over 2 million users and 3,600 school and district partners worldwide.  Save educators time with teacher tools, build safe and responsible AI experiences launched by teachers to their students, and experience AI purpose built for education now.  It's free for educators and you can sign up in seconds.  It also meets the data privacy needs for k12, we do not sell data or train on student data, protecting the privacy of all users.  Sign up now at www.magicschool.ai This episode was recorded while at the Elementary Technology Conference in Galveston, Texas. I chat with Colley Johnson and Megan Lancaster who both teach at Sheppard Elementary School located in the Sheppard Air Force Base. Not only do they teach the children of those who serve, they do it in a unique way. They've adopted Taylor Swift into their curriculum to help build relationships in the classroom with students. This is a conversation unlike any other I've had on the show and has a lot of merit. Peep this episode and if this becomes a Cruel Summer, just remember to Shake It Off! Buen provecho! About Colley Johnson Colley Johnson is a an elementary educator in Wichita Falls, Texas. She currently teaches Reading Language Arts at Sheppard Elementary, located on Sheppard Air Force Base. She has been teaching for seven years and prides herself on building classroom family. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, watching reality TV, and chasing around her one year old son, Redding. About Megan Lancaster Megan Lancaster is a teacher in Wichita Falls ISD at Sheppard Elementary. Her first career was in the medical field as a a neonatal and pediatric respiratory therapist. She has been teaching since 2017 and taught PK-first grade, but will be changing to fourth grade this coming year. In her free time she loves spending time with her family and decorating sugar cookies. Connect With Colley Johnson Colley On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colleysue?igsh=MXRscTc0bXd2ZXh6MA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr Colley On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/68XvJwVAusG1tRBc/?mibextid=LQQJ4d Connect With Megan Lancaster Cookie Era On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cookie.era?igsh=MWkwbjV4Zmk5ZzEyZg== The Book Is Officially Out! My first book “Cooking Up Experiences In The Classroom: Focus On Experiences, Not Just Lessons” is officially out! A HUGE shout out to Lumio for helping sponsor this book. I'm super excited about this project. It's filled with ideas on how to make memorable experiences for your students. In addition, each chapter also lays out a specific recipe mentioned in that chapter along with a video tutorial on how to prepare that dish. Make sure you get your copy and cook up some experiences for your students and loved ones! Click Here To Purchase Your Copy On Amazon Connect With Gabriel Carrillo EdTech Bites Website: https://edtechbites.com EdTech Bites Twitter: https://twitter.com/edtechbites EdTech Bites Instagram: https://instagram.com/edtechbites EdTech Bites Threads: https://www.threads.net/@edtechbites EdTech Bites Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/edtechbites EdTech Bites YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@edtechbites

Paul Matthew Tabor received his notification of promotion to U.S. Air Force senior master sergeant on March 12. Matthew joined the U.S. Air Force on June 1, 2005. After basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, he went to Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls for his technical training, where he trained as a crew chief for the F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft. After tech school, he was stationed in at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska, where he spent 3-1/2 years. He was then assigned to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C., where...Article Link

Order our new book, The Score That Matters https://amzn.to/3HSQzhf Rob Henderson has a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Cambridge, where he studied as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. He obtained a B.S. in psychology from Yale University and is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He's the author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class Self-discipline beats motivation. Often, people say they need to feel “motivated” to perform a task. Motivation, though, is just a feeling. Self-discipline is “I'm going to do this, regardless of how I feel.” Air Force Training – "My favorite part of training was the camaraderie. I especially enjoyed drill and marching. The synchronized movement with others, moving as a single element, instilled a feeling of belonging." – The military provided a structured environment. Rob said that whenever he felt like an outsider, he sought refuge in helping others. Because of that, he volunteered at New Haven Reads near Yale. While there, he met a kid named Guillermo. There, he learned how to relate with others by sharing his story. Writing: Rob was accepted into the War Horse Writing Seminar at Columbia University. The program was designed to help veterans write about their experiences. External Achievement: "Upon obtaining a few totems of achievement, I came to realize that they are flawed measures of success. External accomplishments are trivial compared with a warm and loving family. Going to school is far less important than having a parent who cares enough to make sure you get to class every day." Two of Rob's mom's friends came to him for advice. They were talking about their 6-year-old son and they were concerned with how “smart” he was. They asked, “Should we be reading to him more?” And Rob responded, “Yeah, but not because it will expand his vocabulary. Read to him because it will remind him that you love him.” The best and worst things about Yale: Best Students work ethic Focused Unique pursuits Worst Self-censorship One of his instructors at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas asked the class one Friday afternoon if they had any questions. Rob asked, “If you could do it all over again, would you still have enlisted?” – “Understand that the Air Force is going to ask a lot from you. Just remember that you can get a lot in return from it, as well.” Luxury beliefs - Rob coined the term to describe beliefs that mark the believer as holding the approved opinion while harming those less privileged. Lessons Learned The Hard Way: You are what you do. Not what you say or what you believe. People use words to strategically justify their actions and blind you to who they really are. Don't be fooled by cheap talk. Pay close attention to how people actually spend their time and effort. Good conversations are made up of questions. Avoid speaking for longer than three minutes without asking one. When seeking advice, ask people in a different life station than you—ahead or behind, older or younger. People in the same position are often biased by envy, and this can color the advice they give. One of the most common life regrets people report is “I wish I had let myself be happier.” You'll never be happy if you continue thinking that you'll be happy one day. “The study of happiness often sounds like a sermon for traditional values. The numbers show it is not the rich, privileged, robust, or good-looking who are happy; it is those who have spouses, friends, religion, and challenging, meaningful work” - Steven Pinker (How The Mind Works) 35% of people in America graduate with a bachelor's degree, 11% of people from poor families graduate from college. And just 3% of foster kids graduate from college. When you think about Rob's story, it's hard not to be inspired. He's beaten almost impossible odds to not only graduate from college, but he served our country, then went to Yale, graduated, and got his PhD from Cambridge. It's awesome to see what he's done and he's still so young and at the beginning of his career. I love it when good things happen to good people. Life/career advice - “Be a fish out of water. Do something hard. Be uncomfortable.” That was advice for a recent grad, but I think it's useful for all of us.

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CMSgt Jeffrey D. Martin is the Command Chief for the 49th Wing, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. (At the time of recording Chief Martin was serving as the Command Chief, 53d Wing at Eglin AFB, Fla) He serves as the principle enlisted leader to the Wing Commander on all issues regarding the training, safety, morale, welfare and quality of life issues affecting a total force of over 4,000 enlisted personnel. The 49th Wing serves as the primary F-16 and MQ-9 training schoolhouse for the United States Air Force, training more than 150 F-16 pilots and 700 MQ-9 pilots and sensor operators annually. Additionally, the wing provides support to more than 21,000 military and civilian personnel to include the 635th Materiel Maintenance Group (Basic Expeditionary Airfield Resources) and the 704th Test Group. Chief Martin enlisted in the Air Force in September 1997 and graduated from the Electrical Power Production Apprentice Course at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. He has held a variety of leadership positions at the squadron and group levels in the Civil Engineering and Military Training Instructor career fields. He has deployed in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, and Operation FREEDOM's SENTINAL. Prior to his current position, Chief Martin served as the Command Chief, 53d Wing at Eglin AFB, Fla.

Oshkosh — It was a homecoming of sorts for Caroline Jensen on Thursday. When she arrived at EAA AirVenture, it was with a bang. Actually, it was a low rumble followed by a deafening screech that prompted spectators to stick fingers in their ears as Jensen and her five teammates soared through the skies over Oshkosh to prepare for their performances this weekend. The Air Force major, fighter pilot and Wisconsin native is the third woman and the first mother to fly in the Air Force Thunderbirds flight demonstration team. "For me, this is a dream come true — who wouldn't want to perform at Oshkosh? It's kind of like playing at Carnegie Hall," Jensen, 37, said in an interview outside her No. 3 plane shortly after arriving at Wittman Regional Airport. Born in New Richmond, Jensen grew up in River Falls and got hooked on flight when she saw a plane flying in the clouds in a TV movie at the age of 5. She watched the Thunderbirds perform in Eau Claire when she was 13, sparking her dreams of one day becoming an Air Force fighter pilot. She didn't get her first flight until she was 15 — in a single-engine Cessna 172. Her second and third flights were to and from the Air Force Academy for swim camp and her fourth was to basic training after she had been accepted as a cadet. The daughter of a Marine helicopter pilot in Vietnam, she graduated from the Air Force Academy with a bachelor's degree in English and spent 10 years on active duty and the past five years as a reservist. She's the first female reserve officer to fly with the Thunderbirds Before joining the famous flight demonstration team, she was a T-38 instructor and assistant flight commander for Air Force Reserve Command's 340th Flying Training Group at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. She met her husband in glider school while they were at the Air Force Academy. He's now a commercial airline pilot and stays home in Las Vegas with their 5-year-old son while Jensen is on the road 220 days a year. With both parents pilots, it's no surprise their son has a propeller next to his bed, a Braniff Airlines poster on his wall and a bookcase in the shape of a plane tail. When she finishes this season in the Thunderbirds, she'll head to Washington, D.C., to be a congressional liaison for the Air Force. One reason there are so few female Thunderbird demonstration pilots is because only 7% of America's fighter pilot forces are female, Jensen said. "To be on the team, you have to be at the right place in your career with the right set of skills, a family who's supportive and the desire to do it. So there's a lot of things that have to happen for any pilot who wants to be part of the team," she said. She has spent quite a bit of time in the cockpit — it is, after all, her office — with 3,100 hours as an Air Force pilot, including 200 hours of combat in F-16s in Iraq. Jensen was at Disneyland with her family, standing in Cinderella's castle, when her cellphone rang in 2012. On the line were all 12 officers from the Thunderbird team calling to congratulate her. Most pilots spend two years in the Thunderbirds but because the military's flight demonstration teams were grounded last year due to sequestration, the entire team stayed together for an additional year. She flies the No. 3 plane on the right side of the diamond, sometimes as close as 18 inches from the lead plane at speeds up to 450 knots. It's not for the faint of heart. In some of the maneuvers, Thunderbird pilots feel as much as 9 Gs on their bodies and fly as low as 300 feet from the ground. This weekend AirVenture air show spectators will see Jensen and the rest of the Thunderbirds perform loops and rolls as they zoom as low as 500 feet over the crowd in their white F-16s adorned with red and blue stars and stripes. Her favorite maneuver is when the four planes in the diamond split off from each other in four directions. So is it nerve-wracking or comfortable flying in such tight formation? "It's both," she said, adding that the pilots practice their show far away from each other and gradually move closer. "It's all very controlled. I know exactly what (the lead pilot) is going to do, he knows exactly what we're going to do. There are commands we go through and we've literally done them hundreds of times," she said. "It's very deliberate, very rehearsed and very safe." This is the first visit by the full Air Force Thunderbird flight demonstration team to EAA AirVenture and because the "aerobatic box" — the air space above the grounds — is bigger than for other air show performers, convention organizers are moving spectators 150 feet back from the normal flight line. Also, residents and businesses inside the aerobatic box must leave for a few hours while the team performs.

MSgt Manson joins us on HeroFront to talk about his specific leadership approach - C.A.R.E. - Compassion / Accountability / Respect / Empathy - A powerful acronym you MUST hear about! How he has honed his resiliency, and the incredible gift we need to foster called Diversity and Inclusion. Let's get after it!! (full interview is on Ep 23) Follow him on Insta! https://www.instagram.com/supermanson1/ MASTER SERGEANT LaKEITH J. MANSON Sr Master Sergeant (MSgt) LaKeith J. Manson Sr. serves as the Joint Base Andrews Honor Guard Program Superintendent. He was hand selected to lead a diverse team of roughly 110 Airman and NCO annually from 5 Wings, to include a Geographically Separated Guard Unit in Pittsburgh PA. His duties include training, supervising, and mentoring Airmen to render funeral honors, perform ceremonial functions, while representing all Airman past and present. Additionally he manages a $1.5M facility as well as 10 other programs. The teams AOR stretches 5 states, 113 counties and 55K Square miles. The team conducts approximately 1500 Military Funeral Honors and ceremonies annually, recognizing the service and sacrifice of Veteran, Retiree and Active Duty Service Members. MSgt Manson hails from Monticello, New York and entered the Air Force in October of 1999, graduating from the Aerospace Ground Equipment Maintenance Apprentice technical training course at Sheppard AFB, Texas shortly after. After graduating technical training Sergeant Manson was assigned to the 16 th Equipment Maintenance Squadron, Hurlburt Field, FL from 2000-2006, before he was selected to become a Military Training Leader (MTL). As an MTL, Sergeant Manson was assigned to the 366 Training Squadron, Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. He would spend 4 years at Sheppard before he would again diversify himself by applying for and being chosen to the Selectively Manned 1 st Airlift Squadron Flight Attendant team, Andrews AFB, MD. During his career he has been assigned to various positions within the MTL and Flight Attendant career fields to include, Squadron Master of Drill And Ceremonies, Wing Transition Flight MTL, Flight Attendant Element Leader, Noncommissioned Officer in Charge (NCOIC) of Unit Training, 89 Operation Group NCOIC of Awards & Special Projects, NCOIC of Squadron Awards and Decorations, C-32/C-40 Special Missions Flight Attendant, Special Missions Instructor Flight Attendant. His assignments included bases in Florida, Texas and Maryland.

MSgt Manson joins us on HeroFront to talk about his specific leadership approach - C.A.R.E. A powerful acronym you MUST hear about! How he has honed his resiliency, and the incredible gift we need to foster called Diversity and Inclusion. Let's get after it!! **MSgt Manson requested this episode be dedicated to the life and legacy of a true Wingman, Leader and Warrior. TSgt Kenny Santiago** MASTER SERGEANT LaKEITH J. MANSON Sr Master Sergeant (MSgt) LaKeith J. Manson Sr. serves as the Joint Base Andrews Honor Guard Program Superintendent. He was hand selected to lead a diverse team of roughly 110 Airman and NCO annually from 5 Wings, to include a Geographically Separated Guard Unit in Pittsburgh PA. His duties include training, supervising, and mentoring Airmen to render funeral honors, perform ceremonial functions, while representing all Airman past and present. Additionally he manages a $1.5M facility as well as 10 other programs. The teams AOR stretches 5 states, 113 counties and 55K Square miles. The team conducts approximately 1500 Military Funeral Honors and ceremonies annually, recognizing the service and sacrifice of Veteran, Retiree and Active Duty Service Members. MSgt Manson hails from Monticello, New York and entered the Air Force in October of 1999, graduating from the Aerospace Ground Equipment Maintenance Apprentice technical training course at Sheppard AFB, Texas shortly after. After graduating technical training Sergeant Manson was assigned to the 16 th Equipment Maintenance Squadron, Hurlburt Field, FL from 2000-2006, before he was selected to become a Military Training Leader (MTL). As an MTL, Sergeant Manson was assigned to the 366 Training Squadron, Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. He would spend 4 years at Sheppard before he would again diversify himself by applying for and being chosen to the Selectively Manned 1 st Airlift Squadron Flight Attendant team, Andrews AFB, MD. During his career he has been assigned to various positions within the MTL and Flight Attendant career fields to include, Squadron Master of Drill And Ceremonies, Wing Transition Flight MTL, Flight Attendant Element Leader, Noncommissioned Officer in Charge (NCOIC) of Unit Training, 89 Operation Group NCOIC of Awards & Special Projects, NCOIC of Squadron Awards and Decorations, C-32/C-40 Special Missions Flight Attendant, Special Missions Instructor Flight Attendant. His assignments included bases in Florida, Texas and Maryland.

Dr. Randy Hamilton is a pediatric dentist and part of D4C Dental Brands, one of the country's fastest-growing pediatric dental and orthodontic networks. Before partnering with D4C, Randy owned and directly managed iKids Dental, known for its top-notch customer service. Randy created a program that specifically trained staff to offer the best customer service available to clients in any circumstance. He received his DDM at Nova Southeastern University. He was also a resident dentist at Sheppard Air Force Base and has become proficient in anesthesia, surgery, and IV sedation.  In this episode, Randy joins me to discuss how he got into pediatric dentistry and why he emphasized customer service in his practice. He explains the difficulties of expanding your business and who he hired to help him rise over these challenges. He describes how Disney and The Ritz inspired him to create a customer service program that would make the patient experience unique and something to look forward to. Randy also shares how the pandemic stopped his original business plans and how technology enabled them to come out with better cash flow than before.   "When you're expanding, there are different levels of numbers of offices you hit a barrier with." - Dr. Randy Hamilton   This week on Priorities Lifestyle: How Randy's degree in finance helped him in his dental career Randy's experience leaving for a church mission in Brazil for two years Why Randy learned more in his one year with the airforce than in all his time studying dentistry What Randy did when he couldn't buy the practice he wanted Why Randy chose to specialize in pediatric dentistry How Randy improved his practice's customer service Overcoming the barriers of expansion in the dental industry The challenges of maintaining a high level of customer service with multiple offices How Disney and Ritz Carlton inspired Randy's curriculum for the healthcare experience The person Randy hired to help him expand from 8 to 15 offices Why Covid was catastrophic for the dental industry How the pandemic changed Randy's plans for his offices What they did to stay afloat and even rise during the height of the pandemic How technology helped his team work during the pandemic Why Randy insists on having team members come into the office a few days a week What Randy's life was like as he was expanding offices  The experience Randy had in transitioning away from direct ownership and management   Our Favorite Quotes: "The first impression was just as important as the last impression." - Dr. Randy Hamilton "Sometimes it's the tender mercies of God that direct you in a certain path." - Dr. Randy Hamilton "Having people who are smarter than you around you is phenomenal." - Dr. Randy Hamilton   Connect with Dr. Randy Hamilton iKids Pediatric Dentistry D4C Dental Brands Dr. Randy Hamilton on LinkedIn   About Rob Schulz and P&L Podcast The P&L Podcast is a show for business owners. In each episode, host and financial planner Rob Schulz sits down with business owners and the professionals that serve them to talk about business building, life, money — and the all-important transition out of the business, which inevitably happens to everyone who has ever founded a company.    Email Rob at rob.schulz@schulzwealth.com with questions, comments, and to schedule a one-on-one conversation.    Follow Rob on LinkedIn. Follow Schulz Wealth on Facebook Subscribe to Schulz Wealth on YouTube   Order Rob's book, Thoughts on Things Financial, here.    Subscribe here: iTunes Google Play Stitcher Spotify Audible    And, if you enjoy the show, please leave a review on iTunes to help others discover the podcast

This week's story involves the death of an 11-year-old boy named Christopher Aaron Morris on September 25, 2000. Christopher and his sister Ashley McCarthy were Army brats. It's a term of endearment used to reference the children of military personnel. Christopher lived with his dad in military housing in Wichita Falls, Texas at Sheppard Air Force Base. On the day of September 25, 2000, Christopher was off from school. At 11, his dad felt he was mature enough to be home alone. His father came home around 11am for lunch. He then left an hour later. He would then leave work early and arrive home around 2 pm. When he came home, Christopher wasn't there to greet him. He then began looking for his son. When he looked in his room, he saw dish racks from the dishwashing machine in Christopher's room. He immediately went to the dishwasher. He saw Christopher's clothing piled up next to the machine. When he opened the machine, he found his son's body inside the machine. Not only was Christopher deceased, but someone had turned on the machine and ran an entire cleaning cycle. From this point, the mystery began. After authorities arrived, they immediately accused Christopher's dad of killing his son. Allegedly, Christopher was sexually assaulted, tortured, murdered, and then someone ran his body ran through a full cycle in the dishwasher. I would assume this was done to remove evidence. According to Ashley, Christopher's sister, none of this is true. What happened to this young man who played football and loved playing with legos? Do you know what happened to him? If you have any information about this case, please contact the Wichita Falls Police Department @ 940-761-7792Please also visit my website for more information about my true crime and paranormal newspaper columns at www.themarcabe.com. You can also help support my podcast by joining my true crime coffee club for $5 per month where you can read true crime stories. To join, please visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/catchmykiller. If you would like to contact me about this podcast, please email me at catchmykiller@gmail.com.

Major "AT" is an A-10C Instructor Pilot and Intelligence Formal Training Instructor.  AT enlisted in the Air Force in the Sumer of 1998.  After Basic Military Training, he entered the Pararescue Indoctrination and completed the demanding 18 month training pipeline.  He graduated the Pararescue Apprentice Course, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, in July of 2000 and was assigned to the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Florida.  There he quickly competed upgrade training and gained experience through joint exercises, and real-world missions.  Immediately after September 11, 2001, he deployed in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM where flew over 80 combat sorties, logged more than 2,400 hours of Combat Search and Rescue alert, and was credited with five lives saved following the Taliban Prison uprising in Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan in November 2001.  It was at this time that Major AT finished his degree Magna Cum Lauda, and began fulfilling a lifelong dream of becoming an Air Force Officer and Fighter Pilot.  Accepted simultaneously to active duty and national guard flight training programs, Major AT chose to join the Idaho Air National Guard in 2007.  He then attended the Academy of Military Science finishing Distinguished Graduate and receiving a commission.  Next, he attended the prestigious Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training, Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, gaining his pilot wings in September of 2009.Military Deployments: OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM (INFINITE JUSTICE) -2001OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM-2003OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM-HORN OF AFRICA-2003OPERATION IRAQI FREEOM -2004OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM -2012OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE – 2016OPERATION RESOLUTE SUPORT – 2020Listen for more!Lets Go!

Carrie Martin: "Even if you take a loss here and there, don't stop. You're not always going to be able to change people. You have to inspire your own positivity and make increments of change that are within your power--sometimes your change is your attitude and the way you look at things, even if you can't change policy." Carrie has been involved in the defense innovation ecosystem for about a year. She has attended numerous RAPIDx workshops in various AFWERX facilities. She was recently named the RAPIDx Flight Chief for AFWERX operational support. She is passionate about helping innovators find the best acquisition method for making their ideas become a reality. During this episode, we discuss innovative contracting mechanisms and the office culture needed for experimenting and trying new things. Carrie also mentions the importance of pulling enabling agencies like contracting into your innovation projects early and often. All in all, the key message is that when you innovate, don't forget to build a path behind you for others to follow. Resources Mentioned: - 82nd Contracting Squadron & RAPIDx webpage: https://82cons.com/ - Join AFWERX's weekly office hours: https://www.afwerx.af.mil/office-hour... If you enjoy the show, we'd love for you to review The DisruptiveAF Podcasts on Apple Podcasts! This helps us reach new people who would love to hear from our guests every week. Plus, we love to hear your thoughts on the show. For more about the podcast, visit https://www.afwerx.af.mil/podcast.html Follow AFWERX: Twitter: twitter.com/afwerx Instagram: instagram.com/afwerx Facebook: facebook.com/afwerx

Today's stories: An F-15 Avionics course at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas is the first of its kind to teach using only tablets, instead of printed media. Also, new technologies to lower sustainment costs and improve the readiness of the Air Force's C-130 fleet will be tested as part of a partnership between the University of Dayton Research Institute and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center.

In this episode, James Rumfelt from the 82nd Training Wing Public Affairs office at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, talks with two senior NCOs from the 365th Training Squadron about breaking industrial-age paradigms in Air Force technical training. Master Sgt. Brion Kennedy, the avionics fundamentals flight chief, and Master Sgt. James Churchill, the heavy avionics flight chief, discuss various ways they are working to break those long-held paradigms. One example is breaking the paradigm that "time is the constant." Instead of focusing on an exact number of days for graduation, focusing on the competence-level at graduation. This resulted in a very prepared Air National Guard Airman graduating from the avionics fundamentals and electronic warfare courses in a fraction of the time it would normally take. They also talk about some ways they can make the training more learner-centric: wether it's putting unclassified training materials online for all the students to access, or giving all students an iPad so they can study their class materials at any time.

Today's stories: A T-6 Texan II from Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, crashed in Oklahoma. Also, residents of privatized housing on Air Force Bases now have a 24-7 helpline for unresolved housing concerns.

In the episode, Master Sgt. Bryan Dudley, the emergency manager training flight chief for the 368th Training Squadron at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. and a detachment of the 82nd Training Wing based at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, talk all things related to innovation and the future shaping of the learning environment. Dudley goes in-depth on the curriculum development process the 368th TRS used to reimagine what their initial skills training course looks like, in fact leading to a revamp the emergency management career field didn’t envision when they started!

  My wife, Tara, interviews me!  What Writing Means to Me(Show notes: huntingthemuse.com/podcast/8) Welcome to HuntingTheMuse.com's Creative Writing Podcast.  If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element. Today's podcast episode is a special one. My wonderful wife, Tara, interviews me and asks that tough question: what does writing mean to me?We talk about my first writing experience and why I feel so drawn to writing. This podcast episode follows a conversational format, but under the surface of my own recounted experiences, you can see some of the underlying foundations of writing and what it takes to be a writer as it applies to your own story.We all come to the empty page with different backgrounds. And if storytelling has taught me anything, it's that there are hidden gems of truth within every story. Not subscribed to the podcast? Get it now!When did you first develop a desire to write?The first writing experience I remember was in Ms. Shupe's first grade class. We were supposed to write a short story and I wrote one that was very similar to The Lion and the Mouse. It was called, The Lion and the Turtle. It was a total knock-off.But my mom worked at Hill Air Force Base and they had computers. So she typed it up for me and printed it out and put it into this very professional looking folio. I took it to school and, probably more because it looked nice, Ms. Shupe put it on the bulletin board outside the classroom for the whole school to read. It blew me away and I was so excited about writing, you know, in first grade... with my knock-off story. So, where did it go from there?Well, for the most part, I only wrote for school assignments. There was something that went down in fifth or sixth grade. A couple of the guys in my class started writing a story about kids with super powers. But it got out of hand and nobody ended up wanting to finish it because we couldn't stop fighting about who had more super powers. So that didn't go very well.But then in junior high I started to write poems. I wanted to write stories, but I got hung up on using the correct punctuation. I had questions and I tried to ask my English teacher but it never came out right, so I never got the answers I was looking for. It was really stupid stuff like, do you put the period before the quotation marks or after the quotation marks. If somebody asks a question, is it a question mark and then quotation marks, and then if it's 'he said' or 'she said' is the 'h' or the 's' capitalized?We didn't have the Internet back then, so I couldn't just look it up and I never really got any good answers to those questions and I just felt kind of silly for asking them after a while so I stopped. But the stories that I did start writing, I would love to tell you that they were awesome, but they weren't. They were crap. I still have some of them. They were just utter crap, but what are you going to expect from a junior high school kid?At the time you thought they were awesome, though?I was pretty sure I was writing them with the punctuation wrong and I talked in the last episode about perfection and how that can be a total creativity killer and that totally killed it for me. Because I wanted them to be perfect. It was really bad cliche stuff. Yeah, I thought it was cool at the time, but it wasn't that great.And then, it was before the Internet, right? So we had the Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) and we would, I called myself a modemer, you'd use the modem on your computer and dial in over the phone line and connect to the BBS. It was basically a simple chat program that brought in all sorts of different users across different telephone line systems and you could chat with people. You could post files. So I posted up some of my poems up there and you read some of them, didn't you?I did.It was before we met.Yeah, I was only on there because a friend who got me on. I wasn't computer savvy, even then. But I was just perusing the file section one day and came across them and the name 'Brady Frost' stuck in my head. And so when I met him later, after he mentioned he had written something, I... it was kind of crazy. Because your name had been stuck in my head.You were stalking me. No, I wasn't stalking you.I was really excited about writing in high school, very passionate. I took Creative Writing, Advanced Creative Writing classes. I ended up getting in a semester of Journalism and I did a horrible job writing articles. I didn't have any beats. I just kind of pumped out pulp crap. But it was fun. It was a lot of fun.I read some of  yours, they were funny.They were humor pieces but there was no... nothing. So, yeah, my humor as a teenager was kind of borderline offensive... non-politically correct, slap and giggle type stuff. So, yeah, it wasn't great work, but I did enjoy writing a lot.Then we got married and I joined the military. And I remember that I wrote a few poems when I was in Basic Training. But that whole time period really took a lot out of me. We had a little girl on the way and the doctor said, well, first... they saw on the ultrasound a dark spot?There was an enlarged area in her kidneys.So, why don't you tell that side of the story since I was away in Basic.It was just during the routine ultrasound and I guess they kind of saw something. I got a phone call later that evening that she had been diagnosed with hydronephrosis. It just means that the middle of the kidney was enlarged and they thought it was filled with fluid. It could be something minor or it could be something very severe that required surgery and Brade was gone to Basic Training. So I had to tell him over the phone.Yeah and it was really tough because we didn't have a lot of time and I had a million questions and I couldn't ask hardly any of them. It was really tough because I was so far away and I was cut off. I couldn't just call whenever we wanted to. That was a really hard time for me. I got pneumonia in Basic and carried it for four to five weeks because I didn't want to flunk out or get washed back or miss any of my training because if I missed any of my training cycles because I might have to wait until the next training class of people came through.That isn't a bit deal in Basic, but when you go to your tech school that next block could be like three months, whenever they have enough people to fill their quotas. And Tara was due like a month after I was supposed to get out of training, so that would give us enough time to get my orders and figure out what we were doing.So with all that stress, I just kept pushing it and pushing it and pushing it. This included everything with the military normally.Even beyond then, you weren't very creatively driven during your time in the military.Yeah, but I'm just saying from that time period, running and everything with pneumonia. We had to run like five miles, we had to run three miles a couple times a week.. I can't even remember, it's been so long now. But by the time I finally collapsed after taking the first block test and getting a 96%, they took me to the emergency room. And I remember I was so hot and I hadn't eaten for days. It was all I could do to sip down some liquids and what-not.It was interesting, they got me a cab. It was at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas and they drove me from the school house for our tech school to the hospital. I must have looked like death, I don't know, the base taxi driver took one look at me and cranked up the AC all the way and turned all the vents toward me. By the time we got to the hospital I was feeling good, which was bad.Here I was thinking... they told ya, if you're trying to fake being sick, don't think you're going to get away with it because a million people before you have tried before you. And here I am at the emergency room and I'm feeling great after feeling like crap for weeks, so... yeah... I was like, okay, I gotta act sick. So I tried to act sick, but then they took my temperature and it was at 104 degrees. And then they took X-rays and my lungs were substantially filled with water, or liquid. So I had pretty bad pneumonia and I had to convince them not to keep me in the hospital because I didn't want to miss the next training block that was starting on Monday, and this was on Friday. But yeah, that whole time period took a lot out of me and then my focus became doing well in the military, as best I could, so writing really just fell off to the side. But I still wanted to write.You would still talk about it sometimes.We would go to Barnes & Noble and I would buy a new notebook and write in a few pages.Yeah, you did gather a lot of notebooks during those years.I subscribed to The Writer Magazine and I'd get Writers Digest every now and then. That's when I amassed a lot of the books on writing that I have. I've spent so much money on writing and really I should have just been writing.What would you say that writing means to you now?I think that I've learned a lot of lessons over time and I'm learning more of what goes into a story to make it work. And it isn't necessarily the punctuation things I was getting hung up on before. Because really, learning how to edit and doing an editing pass and then getting outside input can help resolve those issues. It's the story part. Even a poorly written book, grammatically speaking, can do very well if it's got a great story. And people will keep reading even though the writing, itself, isn't that great. Which just boggled my mind with as a reader. And maybe it's because the books I fell in love with seemed to be written very well. But over the years I've read books and thought, this is crap! How did this get past an editor? How is this a best seller, because here's an error, here's an error, and here's an error... and over years I just became more and more and more critical of these books.  I would tell you a book that I liked and then you would start reading it and you couldn't even get through a bit of it. You would say, "How do you like this? It's so awful this way and that way." And I just stopped telling him about books I liked because he would just knock on them.It was really... a lot of that was probably an external manifestation of my insecurities as a writer on the inside, I would hyper-analyze. Because I wanted to be, and I still want to be, the best writer I can be. To see these errors and mistakes, all the books I had said "don't do this..." and there's thins book that's a best-seller that my wife loved and it does all the things the books I had bought said don't do... It... just... arrrgh.. it was so hard.It's like I would tell you, they told a good story.Yep, so that's one thing I've really learned, not just to make the writing as beautiful as I can (but not too wordy for some of the readers) and then encapsulate what really boils down to a great story. And that's a lot harder than it seems because you have to build a story so it's good.You can't just say, why did the story cross the road? I mean, there could be a great story in there, but it's the difference between just telling someone something and the art of story craft. Right? So I'm learning a lot more about what writing is. Writing is about storytelling and it's not just the words you choose to use, but it's also the point that you're trying to get across and how you can strum the emotions of the reader with a good story. We're all kind of programmed to speak the language of storytelling. But I've also learned that writing is hard work sometimes and that's a big difference between when I started out and where I am now. I'm learning to push through the resistance I have. Because for somebody who's thought about writing and dedicated a lot of their mind space toward writing for a very, very long time, I'm a horrible writer. I mean I think I can write well, but I don't do it regularly in a lot of cases. It's really about hard work for me. I know I have to overcome so much to get the story out. There are so many days when I can say, "Uuuuuhng, I'm tired," "My head hurts," "I'm feeling sad." There's a lot of excuses and if I really want to be a writer I've got to learn how to reprogram myself. I can really enjoy writing, then the next day I HATE what I wrote, but then if I put it away and I read it a couple weeks later after I forget the whole process, I'm like, "Hey, that's not that bad." There's this emotional rollercoaster from like in the moment, "Oh, I love this! It's so great." And then, "Aww, I hate it, it's so horrible!" To the point where I'm having nightmares.There are sometimes I wonder why you like it. Because you both love and hate writing from one moment to the next.Another thing I've learned, what writing means to me now is that writing is not cool new gadgets.You mean still, still learning?Hey, I've held off! I've held off for the most part.That doesn't stop you from looking at them all the time. "This would be good for writing, this would be good..."But it would! It would make the process so much simpler, until my technical brain... because I mean, I'm an IT Specialist by day so my whole thing is like figuring out computers and problems and setting up servers and programs and applications and whatever. So, whenever I get a.. it's the funniest thing... this, analyzing myself on this whole process. I get a new piece of technology like a tablet or a Surface Pro and I spend the next two weeks getting it set up perfect and that's two weeks of not writing. In some ways, they are your new notebooks. Although, you still get notebooks!You just can't beat a good looking notebook and a nice pen that flows well when you write and doesn't smear.Yeah, you are a pen snob.Mmmm, yeah. So, where do you see your writing five years from now?Well, I would like to be writing full-time. So, I've worked really, really hard to get to where I'm at career-wise. It was a lot of time spent going to school and taking on tough, challenging jobs, but at no point in my career or my life, did I stop working to go to school. So whenever I've gone to school it was full-time work and full-time school and then spending time with you and the kids.And it's been tough.Yeah.So, on one hand, I don't want to walk away from that, but on the other hand, I'm kind of burnt out. I want to write stories. I want to tell stories. I love telling stories.Now, I would say you're good at your job. It's just not a passion for you anymore.And, especially with some of the stuff I deal with after being in the military, I have days when it's really tough to do what I do and it takes a lot out of you. And those are the days when I come home and I say, "Yeah, if I were feeling better, today would be a good day to write. But my brain is just shot." I'm learning to overcome those because I know I have to overcome them if that's something that I want to end up doing.And those are the days, when you overcome, you feel best about.YeahAre you in-line right now with where you want to be in five years?Like effort-wise?Yeah, with what you're doing.Yes and no. So, I have productive days and I have not-so-productive days. But Chlorophyllium 9 and Final Hope, like that two-part story with the novella and the novel, this is the farthest I've ever got on a single project.By quite a lot.Yeah. I usually get really excited and there are different pitfalls I have. Like sometimes I tell you and it lets all the excitement out of what I'm wanted to do. I'm learning to do that better, though. And there's, like, I think the idea I had is stupid and I let those bad days overcome the good days and I let things go. But I'm really learning how to put a lot more effort into it and overcome.I would say that Chlorophyllium 9 and Final Hope are on track for being finished hopefully in October, maybe I'll give it a push back into November, but I don't want it going further than that. If I just have to sit down and crank out the words and come up with a horrible first draft just to get it done and then go back and slaughter it in editing, then that's what I'll have to do.Even though I've never seen you write a horrible first draft. You self-edit too much.I do. That's the biggest thing for me, is learning how to streamline my process. I spend way too much time trying to find the right words when I'm writing. It goes back to not comparing yourself to other writers, and I have to respect some of my own process, but if I can learn how to do things better, that would be really good.I've also released COMA: The Cataclysm, the first chapter on my blog. rbradyfrost.com/coma. You've read the first chapter. Yep.Do you remember that story?I do. I remember from when it was originally done.So, if there's enough interest, I will continue that. I'll just post a chapter at a time and I think spreading it out like that and only doing it if there's interest really helps free me from trying to do too much at once.It kind of goes back to something I did this last week. I was a part of a multi-author project. We each wrote a chapter to complete a novel and all you really had, there was no preplanning, we just had the chapter that came before ours. Mine was the second chapter and I wrote almost two thousand words in one evening and that was after a long day in the office and driving home from Dallas. I was pretty beat, I was pretty sure I wasn't going to be able to do it. But I had a 48-hour deadline and I ended up meeting it. And I thought I did pretty good.I enjoyed it.So, I think this is something I can do with COMA. And I really like seeing that old story kind of coming forward and getting some closure on that one. Because I think that one was actually a pretty good premise.So to answer your question, if I keep working really hard and I keep learning how to write better stories, then I do think that within five years I could seriously consider whether we want to just rely on my income as a writer rather than as an IT guy.Yeah.So that's where I am. That's what writing means to me, as of this week anyway.I think that's good.Okay. Well, I guess I'll give them their writing prompts.Sounds like a plan.Okay, stay tuned. You have this little intro and then you have seven writing prompts for the week.And now, for this week's writing prompts!What you'll find below is a series of creative writing prompts to help get you through your week. There are no rules as to how you should use them, but I recommend taking your muse's hand; wherever she may lead you. Whether you find yourself writing a descriptive scene or dialogue, a poem or prose, or anything else (even if it seems entirely unrelated to the prompt), you have won. Happy writing, and may you find success in hunting your muse this week.  1. Unknown CityA team of scientists have unearthed several rare artifacts from a construction site in a well-populated city. The discovery has all-but halted normal life in the area as experts from around the world flock to examine the unexpected discovery. All evidence seems to indicate the presence of a very prosperous civilization that existed tens of thousands of years ago in this location. The people of this era appear to be very advanced, using technology we can’t fully understand. This is all in direct conflict with everything we thought we knew.  There are so many questions raised about the discovery. How did this civilization come into existence, where did they go, and what practical applications can we find for their strange devices? 2. The Inside JobYou’ve just discovered that someone very close to you might be a clandestine agent of unknown origin. You have no idea who they’re working for or what their objective is, but one thing is clear; they are not the person you thought they were. As tensions rise, you try to find out anything you can, all while pretending to be as oblivious and trusting as ever. What are they after? Why go to such lengths to get close to you?3. The ReversalPeople aren’t always who they appear to be. You’ve worked hard through the years and managed to amass a small fortune. Since you grew up in a disadvantaged situation, you always try to give back to the community and create opportunities for others to succeed. This means you can usually be seen out volunteering, and you save the fancy duds for special occasions. This has led to some very interesting misunderstandings, but today takes the cake. You’re running a little late on your way to the office after volunteering with a housing improvement project, when one of the candidates for a special fast-track program you just established literally runs into you on the street on their way to a one-on-one interview with… you. You’ve read their file and watched their application submission video, but the person yelling profanities and admonishments bears nothing more than a physical resemblance to the candidate you were sure you were going to pick. Deciding to allow things to play out, you apologize to them for being in their way and then slowly make your way to your building, stopping in a spare office to change into your business attire before walking in and calling them into a conference room.4. Creature ComfortsWhile on a solo vacation adventure, you decide to pay for a cheaper seat on a returning flight of a small charter plane instead of booking a seat on the normal airlines. When you board the plane, you’re taken aback by the luxury that surrounds you.  Halfway through the leg; however, the small plane experiences a mechanical failure and the flight is diverted. The owner of the plane insists on compensating you for the inconvenience and puts you up in a five-star hotel while the parts for the plane are ordered and installed. This strange glimpse into a different world soon affords you with unexpected opportunities and you can’t help but think that this is a life you could get used to.5. Just a Little Bit LongerSomething is out there. You don’t know what it is or where it came from, but one thing is for sure. Where it goes, death follows. You’ve been on the run, dashing blindly through the dense overgrowth, for what seems like ages. The only thing you know for certain is that this creature, whatever it is, doesn’t like sunlight. With the first hints of dawn peeking over the tips of the mountains, you know you’ll be safe if you can somehow manage to stay one step ahead until the sun emerges in the east. But then you hear it somewhere close behind you. Without a second to spare, you don’t dare look back. Up ahead you see a small cave opening. If you can manage to squirm inside, you might have a chance. You just have to hold out just a little bit longer.6. Community SurvivalIn the aftermath of a terrible disaster, a community must overcome isolation and a lack of supplies to rebuild. Together, they work hand in hand. Strangers who largely ignored each other before the event now challenge their vast differences in order to survive. There are many things once taken for granted that are now in high demand and your diverse character ensemble must figure out how they will cope until outside help arrives. How will your characters handle outside threats to their small community? What happens if new parties arrive and old bonds begin to unravel the cohesiveness the group has worked so hard to form? 7. The Super-Secret AdmirerIt all started a couple days ago when you found a long-stem rose tucked under the windshield wiper blade of your car. There wasn’t a note and, as far as you can tell, there wasn’t a special occasion to celebrate. Another rose showed up on your doorstep the following evening. And now there’s an entire bouquet sitting at your desk. No one seems to know who they came from or why. Try as you might, you can’t think of anyone who would have a reason to shower you with gifts like this. Is this the beginning of something special, or are these strange gifts a small precursor to something darker than love? I hope you've enjoyed this week's episode and creative writing prompts. 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Paul Berry is an award-winning producer, reporter, and news anchor who has covered news in Washington, D.C. and Detroit for more than 25 years and currently hosts his own nationally syndicated weekly radio talk shows. Andy O and Paul Berry reunite in this all new episode of Our Town podcast to reminisce about the broadcast industry and where it is now in Our Town. Paul and Andy met each other in 1972 when he came to WMAL. Paul already knew that he loved Washington, DC from a previous trip here and was thrilled with the opportunity to work in this city. Eventually, WMAL split into two different stations. Paul stayed with TV and Andy went with radio but these two have remained buddies over the years. It is a pleasure to hear them chat about both the past and the present during Our Town. Paul began broadcasting in Vietnam. It was there that he established the first radio station in that part of the world for the military. The show was a hit and folks from the US started sending in records for him to play on the air for the GIs. Once out of Vietnam, Paul went to the Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas and continued broadcasting for the troops. At that time, there were no blacks on radio in Texas. He made quite a name for himself there. Little by little his hours on the air started to increase as he grew in popularity. It seemed that Paul was a natural on the air. Paul and Andy discuss how Paul first got into TV. While at home in Detroit in 1968, Paul was taking a short break from the military. He decided to visit a radio station where he randomly met the producer of the station. The producer encouraged Paul to write a resume and submit it to WXYZ in Detroit who happened to be looking to hire minorities at that time. Paul almost headed back to Texas to sign on for active duty again but, as luck would have it, WXYZ wanted to hire him on the spot. They negotiated a deal in minutes and, in April of 1969, he went on the TV with his first story. In Paul Berry’s time with WMAL-TV TV7, he established himself on the 5, 6 and 11:00 news. Paul wasn’t just interested in reporting the news though, he wanted to be sure that he made a positive difference in the lives of his viewers so he brought two shows to the station: Crime Solvers and Seven On Your Side. Through these shows, the police and the citizens of the community worked together to make it a better, safer place to live. Paul is married to his lovely wife, Amy. They have three children who were all born right here in Georgetown. Paul has strong connections to the Eastern Shore where his wife’s family owns many of the local businesses in the area. Amy is now a realtor, helping families find homes that meet all of their needs. Andy connects further with Paul as they discuss everything from The Paul Berry Golf Tournament for charity, to his 25 years as an auctioneer, to the Paul Berry Days celebrated in DC. The interview comes to an end as Andy inquires about Paul’s current radio show venture. Paul has two weekly Sunday shows: Streetwise, a show about real estate, and Home and Family Finance, a show which addresses financial planning needs. We hope you have enjoyed this week’s episode of Our Town with Andy Ockershausen. We invite you to listen to each new episode of Our Town as they roll out over the next several months. You can subscribe to the Our Town podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or if you complete the subscription form in the sidebar to the right, you will be notified by email when the next episode appears here on the website.

8 PM CST-Pagans Tonight proudly presents Pagan Warrior Radio-Pagan Altars at Military Installations with Pamela Kelly       Discover some of the ways that Pagan altars are created and used in barracks, on ships, and on the move with Pamela Kelly, DFGL at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas.