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Article 19 is back! After a hibernation, we're ready to bloom again. Listen to Katie and Kristen interview longtime listener, first time caller, Raquella Freeman, as she shares her disability journey with us. While ableism and sexism tried to keep her down, Raquella leaned hard on the voices that lifted her up and is now an advocate for those who follow. At the end of the episode, Katie gives Raquella a unique gift, and Raquella undergoes a surprise metamorphosis. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.    Learn more about web accessibility at Tammaninc.com and document accessibility, and accessibility training and consulting  at ChaxTC.com.     00:00:00,171    Article 19 Intro Recording: Expression is one of the most powerful tools we have. A voice, a  pen, a keyboard.    Eleanor Roosevelt Recording: “The real change which must give to people throughout the world their human rights must come about in the hearts of people. We must want our fellow human beings to have rights and freedoms which give them dignity.”    Article 19 Recording: Article 19 is the voice in the room. (tech Music bed)    00:00:25   Walt Zielinski: So for me, the moment that I realized digital accessibility was something I wanted to learn more about was when it dawned on me that the same sort of fight for gay rights and being visibly queer was sort of the same exact fight being fought for people with disabilities. Accessibility is all about championing people whose voices are inherently, by society, stifled or shut down because they exist outside of the typical space. And when I realized that it was all part of the same fight, that my fight for religious freedom, for queer liberation, was the same as the fight for disability rights, it became very obvious that it was something that I had to pursue in some way.    00:01:23   Rose Bliesner: I was drawn into digital accessibility when I first met people who worked in this space. When I learned that digital accessibility was something that people had careers in and  something that people dedicated their lives to, I was intrigued. I met several accessibility  professionals and learned that they are the most empathetic, most passionate people, and that they really, really love what they do. And so their enthusiasm for their craft really motivated me to educate myself on how to make the world more accessible. And I have loved every minute of it.    00:01:55   Rob Underwood: When I got hired by Chax to remediate InDesign documents for assistive  technologies it was the very first time I realized that digital accessibility was something that I  wanted to learn more about. I've been teaching InDesign for 20 years, but I never knew how to make an accessible document. When I was hired, I was taught the process of document  remediation in small, incremental steps at first. I learned about the importance of headings and document structure. Once we got into color contrast, tables, and the pack checker, I understood the importance of the job we were performing, and how accessibility wasn't a nice-to-have, it was a must. The real aha moment for me was the first time DAX showed us what the documents we created sounded like with a screen reader. For the first time, I could finally grasp how people interact with assistive technology. It was then that I realized that my skillset could provide value to the team and that I wanted to learn everything I could about document remediation. Being part of a team that is at the forefront of accessibility makes me feel good about the work I'm doing. For the first time in my life, I feel like I'm working at a job that gives me purpose.      00:03:07   Taylor Kellar: When I first started working for Chax, I had a very vague understanding as to what digital accessibility meant. I thought that because technology was ever evolving, that  accessibility was something that was already being automatically considered. It wasn't until I  realized that programs that I use as an able-bodied individual, like Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat, have barriers that my coworkers who don't utilize technology in the same way have trouble accessing. What inspires me to learn more about digital accessibility is my co-workers. I feel very lucky that I get a first-hand experience learning tips and tricks on how to make my own content more accessible, and as a world that's primarily online, I think we owe it to ourselves to make content accessible for everyone.      00:03:51   Katie Samson, (cohost): Hello, everyone, and welcome to Article 19. What's up, Kristen?  Kristen Witucki, (cohost): Oh, it's been a minute, Katie. We're, you know, we've taken a little  break, and it's really great to be back with you again and with our producer, Markus Goldman.    00:04:06   KS: Yes, we got the band back together.   KW: Yeah, we did.  KS: We're going to have some great music, some awesome topics coming up in 2026. And we figured we'd start a little bit easy, starting internal to Tammann and Chax.    00:04:20   KW: with our most ardent listener, our loyalist fan, perhaps our only downloader, but  nevertheless, she's been there through it all and a lot more.  KS: So let's bring her in. Welcome everyone to the kickoff of 2026. Article 19. Raquella  Freeman. Hello.  Raquella Freeman: Hi, everyone.  KS: So glad to have you with us.  RF: Long time listener, First time caller. Thank you. So excited to be here and be a part of this  for sure.    00:04:53   KS: Raquella, can you tell our listeners where you are situated right now?    RF: So I am in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It is the heat of winter, which means it's about negative  something out there right now. And I think we're about to have a snowstorm beginning tonight and into tomorrow.    00:05:11   KW: So you mean another snowstorm, right? Another snowstorm. Not the first snowstorm.    RF: Correct. We had our first snowstorm last week, so this will be our second snowstorm, and  it's only the second week of December, so we're doing great.    00:05:26   KS: Wow. Those Wisconsinners, you guys really earn your seasons, I gotta say.    RF: Yes. We spend most of our time in winter, and we really look forward to those three months of summer.    00:05:38   KS: Well, it's so great to have you with us and to kick off what I think is going to be, you know, an exciting year for us. We've got a little bit more flexibility to explore some topics. You know, you're one of our faves. So we had to do the call out first. Kristen, you want to kick us off with a softball question?    KW: Yeah, yeah. Well, Maybe not the softballs, I don't know. Softballs are hard, though. I've  been hit with one. So let's just start at the beginning. If you think about your family, Raquella, and your beginnings, because this is going to sound sort of random, but it all leads to the great pinnacle of you being with us now. When you think back to your, you know, your birth and your early childhood, how do you think your parents would have described those early years and how did they discover or diagnose your disability needs?    00:06:33   RF: That's a fun question. My early years were really complicated. I had health conditions right away. I was born about a month, almost two months early, and this was in the early nineties. So medical practice wasn't what it is today. And I had health complications, spent over a month in the hospital, and they weren't sure you know, what would happen after having a brain bleed. You know, they had no way of knowing what my life would be like until I grew up a little bit. And then as the years went on, my parents tell me that I was a very precocious child, like I was talking circles around them even starting as early as three years old. I could tell you about everything that ever happened and I wanted to tell you everything that I had in my head, but I couldn't sit up. So you had a child who could talk your ear off, but physically I was barely crawling, had limited mobility and couldn't sit up without a lot of support. So they knew something was going on, but the local doctors in my small town that I grew up in didn't know what it was. And they said, Oh, she'll catch up. Don't worry about it. She'll catch up. You know, we were getting older and my parents were like, this doesn't feel like a she'll catch up thing. So they took me to a more advanced doctor in Milwaukee, which is one of the bigger cities in Wisconsin. And they have a great children's hospital there where I met my doctor, Dr. Schwab, who diagnosed me within like a second of meeting me. They said they barely even walked into the exam room and he was like, Oh, so she has cerebral palsy. Like, let's get working on how we can support her and get her the support she needs. And it was him who, you know, helped my parents figure out what my diagnosis meant, started helping me get the medical equipment I needed to get support, get physical therapy and kind of get that process started in my life. And he was also the guy who did all of my surgeries for all of my young years, the surgeries that I've had. And he was great. Like he, he really did change my life. and like help my family and me figure out what the next steps were, but never held me back from anything I wanted to do. Just made sure that I had everything I needed to be successful.    00:08:53   KS: We've talked a lot, Raquella, about just the physical barriers that we have to face as  wheelchair users, navigating winter, navigating a lot of things. How did you learn in those early years and in your own life about all of the barriers, I guess, and then, you know, the ableism that comes with it? Did you start to see signs of that when you were a child, when you were trying to get involved in certain activities, or did it start to kind of creep in, yeah, over time?    RF: It was there pretty early. I think, you know, maybe my earliest memory of it, you know, I  was… In kindergarten, I think when I started to go to school was when I noticed students  treating me differently and people not knowing how to interact with me. Like that's how it began early on. And I had to learn very quickly that like this was going to be part of life for me and how to navigate that space, which I credit my grandmother for. giving me the words to work in those spaces, which because she was the one who told me, hey, people aren't going to understand how capable you are. They might make fun of you, but what's most important is that you just show them that you're just like they are. And then maybe you need a little support. Like she gave me the language to be like, Hey, you know, don't make fun of me. Like I'm good. Like gave me the strength to stop people from putting me down instantaneously and said, no, you have a voice in these spaces to do that. Which is why I think only every year after that moment was I got stronger and stronger in my convictions to not let anybody tell me what I could or could not do whether it was an education or any time in my life. And I just kind of still hold on to those words today. Any time it comes up that someone says, oh, I don't think you can do that. I hear my grandma in the back of my mind going, you can do anything and don't let anybody tell you, you can't.    00:10:56   KS: God bless grandmothers, right?    RF: Absolutely.    00:10:59   KW: Yes, definitely. I can relate to some of that growing into our advocacy self, especially like that late elementary, middle school passage of life when like your whole brain is opening up that you kind of thought about one way and it's sort of more innocent childlike frame of mind suddenly gains depth and complexity and hardship sometimes. And I was wondering if you could tell us a little bit about some of the middle school struggles that you were telling me about before and how they shaped you.    RF: For sure. Middle school, as I'm sure everybody knows, is a tough time for everybody. No  matter where you're from, middle school is complicated and mine was no different. One of the most wild times I had in middle school was during gym, which wasn't my favorite class ever, but it was one that we all had to do. So I would go even though half the time I would spend doing more of a study hall when I couldn't really easily participate in some of the sessions that they had. But one that they always had us do was the presidential fitness test that we did every year, which I couldn't do probably 90% of the presidential fitness tests like well or at all. But the one section I could do was the push-ups section. I have very strong upper body strength. Not so much anymore, but back in my younger days when I used a walker for a majority of my mobility, I would use my arms to move around. So my arms were very strong from carrying my whole body all day. So needless to say, you can put me on the floor and I could do over a hundred push-ups in a minute with perfect form and in like the full style. Like I love doing push-ups and I like felt so good about myself for how good I was at push-ups because every other aspect of gym class I was not good at but I was really good at that. So good that the phys ed teacher actually was like, hey I'm going to use you as my example student for the perfect push-up. of like how to align your body perfectly and how to do it right and for somebody like me whose physical body mostly doesn't ever do what I want it to to have somebody say in this moment your body is a show of like perfection was a big highlight for me. So I did that and it was great. Flash forward to a couple days later, we were revisiting the topic and I was told by that same teacher that he had gotten calls from students' parents, those students happened to be boys in my class, that called and said, hey, you can't be using her as an example because my son was upset. that you were using the girl with a disability to show off the perfect pushup and not them. And so I was told at that point that I was no longer allowed to be the example student because I had hurt feelings of the boys in my class because it was me and not them. That one hurt me. I think that one still hurts me a little bit to this day because I'm in my thirties now and I still remember that moment extremely vividly. I was like realizing that even something as simple as doing push-ups in gym class would lead to somebody in my class doing something like that to show them even though I couldn't do anything else in class I could do that and they didn't  appreciate that I had showed them up in some way.    00:14:37   KW: That's quite an intro to ableism and sexism like in one shot.    RF: Yes, for sure. It makes me sad even to this day.    00:14:45   KS: I mean, talk about teachable moments, not only for the boys, but for the parents and for the gym teacher as well. Who's protecting who in that situation? And, you know, I can't imagine it did those boys any favors in their adult life by learning that lesson. But in a way, as a transition, I would say you are paying it forward in a really cool and awesome way. And I love the work that you do and the service work that you do for young people with disabilities. And we've talked a lot about our camp times during the summer where we go off and explore and have adventures with our like-minded disabled groups. And I wonder if you could talk about some of that work and the advocacy that you do for young people and where it's led for you today in that involvement and some of those lessons that you learned, you know, albeit painful as a child and how that kind of informs your practice with this camp and your service to your community.    RF: So I work with an organization called Wisconsin Youth Leadership Forum. I've been a part  of it in some capacity since 2011 when I myself was a delegate. It changed my life in that  moment. It gave me a new community of people because the theme of the camp is that you're spending a week away from home in a college campus in dorm rooms with other students with disabilities who are high school age and you spend the week learning about advocacy not only for yourself but also for future planning and goals for your career and how to achieve that, and the best thing about YLF is that they also majority of the staff is also persons with disabilities. So you have all students with disabilities, and I would say probably 90% of the staff has some form of disability as well, and we're all just working together, and it's beautiful as a delegate, you get to not only meet more students with disabilities, but you also get to meet and witness staff with disabilities, working hard and doing some really cool things and I think that can be really powerful to see from both sides of not only are you participating in this camp, but people like you are running this camp. I think that just makes it even more powerful. The whole week is about building community, growing together, thinking about your future because most of these kids are one to three years at most away from graduating high school. And so their future is kind of in their hands. Do I want to go to college? Do I want to go straight into the workforce? And whatever their goals are, you know, we're sometimes one of the first people who has them really thinking about it beyond like you know the high school guidance counselor that might just have like their standard script of things that they give every student you know we're really saying no what do you want to do let's let's really talk about your goals and like what do you need what supports do you need to be able to achieve this career that you want whatever that may be and like showing them that the doors aren't closed to anything as long as and there are people out there that can support them and for so many of these kids we've been they've told us like oh i've never really thought about it because nobody asked me or you have some who have really thought about it but they're like i want to do this thing but i don't know how and i don't know who to ask for help and in this seven days together You know, we're talking with these 20 plus students about this and watching them grow and build community with each other. And it's honestly one of the most amazing things that I get to be a part of, not only as a staff member during the week, but I'm also a board member. I'm actually the president of the board at the moment. So I get to really make sure that this organization is successful and continues to grow for years to come because it is truly so important to me because I've seen the impact it can have not only as a delegate, but as somebody who's worked on staff and made connections with young people who I still am connected with today and like, you know, check on them and see how they're doing. And we have past graduates who, you know, are going to legislative meetings or going to talk to their senators or getting careers in spaces where they can use their voice for others with disabilities and knowing that they came through our program and many of them say, you know, I might not have done this legislative talk had I not been in YLF. That was the spark that they needed. And I would say personally for me that that was a spark that I needed back in 2011 as I was getting ready to graduate high school was like the first time that I did advocacy that wasn't just for myself or for like other people in my direct circle where I had met people outside of my small town and realize that there was a whole world of young people and adults doing really great things to better the lives of people with disabilities. And I wanted to be a part of that somehow. Like that's where it really, really clicked in for me that this was going to be a part of my life for the rest of my life.    00:20:08   KW: Well, and that's such a powerful message for people, young people with disabilities or anyone with disabilities to hear and internalize because, you know, I think many, many programs may be well-meaning but might communicate a very different message like, oh, we expect you only in these sorts of jobs or, you know, so that's really powerful that you really absorb what people want to be and are trying to figure out how to help them. When you think about your own journey of getting a job, were there any challenges in getting a job that aligned with your skills and your values?    RF: Yeah. I think the working world is complicated for most people, but like with many things, ableism exists. And I found there to be plenty of ableism when it came to starting my career in the working world. I knew right away that I needed to get a degree because every job that I thought I'd be interested in needed one to like to make that career work. And I knew that I was not only battling for a job in general, but that I had to, or at least I felt, this is my personal feeling, I would say it's not necessarily true for everybody, but personally for me, I felt I needed to be even better than the average person, even at a basic job, because I had to make them forget about my chair. I had to make them see that I was worth the time and the money, regardless of my mode of getting around space. And so I went to school and I did well, and went out and got a job. I mean, I will say my degree probably wasn't the smartest choice if I actually wanted to say it and have somebody understand what it was and give me a job for it. If I'm being honest, it was definitely a liberal arts degree with a name that wasn't helpful. I have technically a community leadership and development degree. Nobody knows what that is, but.    00:22:13   KW: basically... Oh, it does resonate from your camp, though.    RF: It does, yes. The better way to say it is non-profit management degree is what I have. So I started working in non-profit spaces, found my way in through City Year, which is an AmeriCorps program. That was the first, like, quote-unquote big girl job that I had was my City Year job, which was just a sad little stipend that got me moved to Texas, where I spent a year working in a school in San Antonio with sixth graders in English, and it was wild. Those kids were amazing. I loved them. They were why I got up every morning at 4 a.m. and braved wild transit systems to get to them to make sure that I was there for them and it was great, but I had to do a stipend job where I wasn't really making any money and I was just kind of working to exist to kind of start to get noticed in career spaces. It was my first way of finding my way into a role that worked with my degree and paid me to do something. After that, I went into other nonprofit roles that started to slowly see my experience. Most places I worked, I would start at the very, very bottom, you know, and then somebody would recognize that I had a skill and I'd be like, Oh, do you want to move into this next tier? and do other things. And the other answer was always, yes, I want to do more. Yes, I like to do things. Please let me do things. And then I would work my way through. So I kind of learned for a while that that was how my career path was going to go. It was a lot of people not really seeing me, but feeling like, oh, she's got something. There's something there. So let's put her in and we'll see how she does, and see where it goes. You know, I wasn't always ideal and I wanted more for myself, but I think it's safe to say that after, you know, over a decade of really trying to find a workplace that saw me for me and didn't just, you know, throw me a bone because my resume was decent, that finally I realized that I had enough under my belt and had the passion that I needed and applied for. a job at Tamman and Chax and found my way here. I will say I manifested this job in my own way because I loved Article 19 and ChaxChat and just wanted to work here so bad that put my resume out and just crossed my fingers and but we're here today so it's proof that you can manifest your own dreams if you really try hard.    00:24:53   KW: Seriously I mean the story is incredible and let me just back up a tiny bit and you know  when I think about your life compared to mine as a blind person, you know, but both of us  having experienced disability from the beginning is, you know, it's really interesting when I think about you heading into a building or a house and maybe in a lot of cases, they tell  themselves at least that they're grandfathered in, they don't really need to make an accessible building for you or, you know, they think it's for you and not just for everybody. and like that's the challenge but it's so pervasive in our society that many people don't even notice until they're confronted with it and you know but when I think of what your work is which is to you take a document that maybe somebody thought was grandfathered in, and you're stripping away those barriers to the building for someone like me. And I don't know, I'm just really fascinated by your commitment to erasing barriers. And I wondered if you could talk a little bit about how you got into that checks thing specifically.    RF: So I didn't start out as a document specialist. That wasn't where I thought I would end up. but it just so happened that I was working at a non-profit. I was in their development department doing fundraising and things when I overheard them say, hey, we need to start making our documents accessible because, you know, the laws are changing and it's really important that we're doing that. Do we know anybody who can do that on our team? Because we need somebody. And needless to say, I didn't know how to do it, but I was very quick to raise my hand and go, I like to learn. I'll learn, I don't know what this is, but I'll learn how to do this. And that's how I found Article 19 and ChaxChat and started learning how to do document accessibility from nothing and found out very quickly that I loved making documents accessible. That the process of walking through the tags tree and making tags for a document so that it reads in a way that if you can't see it, that it makes sense and you can still understand the information. I thought that was so powerful and so important to be able to do that. And the fact that people didn't recognize that as a thing that was necessary, unless somebody asked for it, like really hit home for me. And that's when I decided I needed to be a part of a company like Tamman and Chax that saw how important that type of work was. So I worked hard and learned as much as I could and I continue to learn to this day and I'm grateful that I'm now part of the Chax family in the way that I can continue my learning and growing and now also help others learn a passion for making documents and the web accessible for people because you don't know what you don't know. I think that's the beauty of the work that we do is not only do we make documents accessible and we know how to do that, but we provide education on how to make those things accessible and to see, you know, when we're teaching classes, that spark that happens. And you can see it finally clicks for the person on the other side of that screen of like, Oh, this is why it's important. Like when we finally say the thing that helps them. really see the benefit of doing the work because it's not always the most glamorous job and sometimes it's hard and a document is complicated and you're spending hours fighting the tags tree, but when you get it  just right and it sounds good and it makes sense and you know that when I pass this off to  somebody they're going to be able to read it and understand it in a meaningful way. It makes me happy. Every time I finish a document and it sounds good I get excited and that's why I love my job so much because I just know that what I'm doing it means something to somebody else besides me.Like whoever is going to read it is going to have a good experience and I played even a small part in that journey.    00:29:05   KS: I love how it's your joy for the work is really infectious. And I think, you know, our listeners would be interested in sort of learning the hard skills and also the soft skills. You talk about like patience and fortitude, like getting through the document. And, you know, I think some of that is ingrained in your personality and, you know, your 100 pushups. And also, you know, thinking about some of those hard skills of like, what did you need to learn in order to become a document accessibility specialist? Did it start with Adobe and then InDesign or did you have to learn a little bit about the design tools first and then get into like the tags tree and sort of what is, I guess, the code at the back end of a document? Because I think, you know, some people just think of a document as a document and they don't really realize that there's a way you can manipulate it. And it's never locked, right? And that whole, like, once you create a PDF, it's locked for good. And, you know, at Chax, we unlock a lot of documents. So yeah, I wondered if you could talk a little bit about that, because you could be without even meaning to planting a seed in a lot of our listeners mind, like, Oh, maybe this is something I can do.    RF: Absolutely.So getting started, I did focus mostly on learning Adobe and the basics of like  what making a document accessible meant in that space.Because I would say still to this day, about 90% of the documents we see on a regular basis are going to be PDFs. You know, we have some source files as well, but my early days, it was very much focused on getting the PDF to be accessible because most of them, even if they were originally created as a Word doc, the final results were PDFs. So starting there is that's usually the gateway.I think, I think it's a, it's a smart way to get your feet wet in the world of accessibility is starting in the PDF. And for me, it was actually Chad's LinkedIn learning course is where I got started. And that went over a little bit of everything. Went over a lot of PDF, a little bit of Word, a little bit of all the basics you need to know. to kind of get started. And I mean, I think the best way to start is create your first tag, you know, watch the video on, you know, where do you find the tag street and what's the process of highlighting the content and creating that first tag. And I think it starts from there is just kind of learning about the heading structure and you know, why headings matter and. and if you can at least give a document some headings and some paragraphs, it's better than it was with no tags. There's a lot more steps to it, but if you can start there and if you find that interesting and you liked the process of that, then you might have a new little career on your hands. And it's definitely something that is so important and meaningful that, you know, it's, if you enjoy it, it's worth doing. I will say, honestly, I've talked to people about the work that I do offhandedly, whether it's my family or friends who ask what I do for work. And I try to explain that I spend my day adding tags to documents that can be anywhere from one page to hundreds of pages long. and that sometimes a document can take me hours or days and I say that story and I tell them how I make a list and it requires a list and a list item and an L body and a label tag and their eyes get big and then gloss over and go And I go, yeah, but it's so satisfying when that list is done and it looks good and it sounds good. And, you know, a lot of my friends go, you have the mind for this. I can't imagine the work that you do every day. And people say to me, I don't think I would enjoy the work that you're doing.    00:33:02   KW: Well, a lot of people don't understand that what a document looks like and what it sounds like can be very different experiences. They think it's very similar. They don't mean to not make it accessible, but they're just like, hey, if I make this font big, then it's a heading. It's like, no. It's a very basic example.    RF: But it's true.    00:33:23   KW: A list needs a list tag, but nobody who looks at a list would necessarily figure that out.    KS: Yeah, it would almost be like going back to elementary school and working in graph paper when you were doing math problems. Like, I always sort of wonder, like, we'll just take Microsoft Word, for example, like, couldn't they have a toggle that you could toggle back and forth and sort of see the tags tree as you're building the document? So it's like, it's built into the software in a sense that there, you're seeing the structure in real time as you're writing it. So it's sort of like the equation is laid out. And then it also brings that awareness. Because I think what all of these software companies did is they tried to make all of these systems look like a notebook, or like a real like you're writing on a pad of paper, right to sort of simulate like, it can be just as good as writing or transcribing or whatever. and disguising all of the tech, wherein the tech is what is so important for the accessibility components too. I sort of was having that thought because oftentimes I feel like in technology, they're just always trying to simulate the real environment in some way. It never quite looks or works. Forget about AI, but just like some of these like old school models that we're still working with. And yeah, I think it would be really interesting to be able to see the back end a little bit more.    RF: For sure. I mean, I just wish looking back that more of these systems thought about  accessibility at the beginning instead of having to be retroactive about it at the end. I mean, I'm grateful that Microsoft accessibility is part of their mantra and they are making steps to make it better and make it more efficient. Um, in terms of accessibility, but I think, you know, one of our biggest. Motto that Chax has to think about accessibility at the beginning, before you even start designing that document is to consider the accessibility within it before you get to the end. Because when you think about accessibility at the end, it can be so much more complicated to implement that accessibility. But if you think about it at the beginning and throughout the process, your whole project becomes more beautiful and easier to make beautiful in accessibility space because there is that misnomer that accessibility means not pretty. That does not have to be the case as long as you're considering it from the beginning rather than having to retroactively correct it at the end.    00:35:57   KS: Yeah, that's really important.I would say you wear a lot of hats at Chax, even though your  title is Document Accessibility Specialist, that you're embedded in the culture and community at Tamman. You help lead the study group. You're also a trainer, you know, an educator. So I  wondered if you could kind of walk through, I guess, like a work week. So, you know, dealing  with clients, getting into documents, because I think a lot of a lot of what you do is building from the strength and that scaffolding that you learned, you know, almost kind of from the nonprofit world where you kind of have to do everything, especially if you're tiny, but mighty.    RF: Right.    KS: And so, yeah. Can you talk us through that work week? or work day, depending on what the day is.    RF: Yeah. Sure. So my average week, I probably spend a good portion of my time doing quality assurance or QA. So I'm working with documents that are provided by our client and I'm adding tags or, you know, working with the team to have tags added to the document. And then we go at the end and we listen to all of our documents to make sure they sound good because sometimes tags can be deceptive. They can look great. But sometimes how they sound isn't always perfect, so you've got to make sure you listen to your documents. So I spend a good bit of my time listening to documents.When I'm not listening to documents, it likely means I am either providing technical assistance in a training for another trainer, or I might be teaching my own training, whether it's individualized for one of our clients, or I'm teaching a drop-in class. And then when I'm not doing those things,it probably means I'm in a book talk or another fun culture-based activity within Tamman and Chax and doing work there as well. So like those are my three main things that I spend my week doing and I love all of them equally and I will say there's more that I could do, can do, sometimes get thrown in to new projects on a whim, but I am not somebody who likes to say no because even now when I have work to do. I like being busy and I like learning new things and like supporting my team as best as possible because all these new things that I can learn just ensure that our work is done well and in a timely manner that I appreciate. Working with the amazing team that we've built, Tamman and Chax, I think just makes that easier too. when I love being able to step away for an hour once a month to go to a book talk. And like, we get to just enjoy each other's company and talk about books. And the fact that that's part of the culture of the workplace is such a beautiful thing. Because not everywhere can you say, oh, it's part of my work day at least once a month to go and talk about a book. Or I happen to run a board game session in the evenings on Monday nights once a week. It's after hours, but I have created an online board game group that we meet, you know, for an hour once a week and play a board game together. It's those little moments that make the work that keeps me busy even extra special because I have a great community of people who care about the work as much as I do, but then we can also enjoy each other's company.    00:39:18   KW: Yeah, I felt so lucky and like a little bit bowled over too, to be honest. Like how did the  entire company, how is everybody such a nice, caring person? And like, you know, we're not all the same, but you know, that I felt very lucky that I've landed among such a great community of people. And I just wondered if there's anything you're looking forward to next year in, well, this year, by the time the podcast comes out in 2026, you know, just like a goal that you have or, skills that you're working on or anything that you're looking forward to? That's fun.    RF: Well, I mean, in general, I'm just looking forward to what next year brings. I think we have a lot of cool plans on the horizon. I'm continuing to work with the amazing collection of clients that I have that consider me their main person and building those connections even further. I am really looking forward to, I'm teaching more drop-in classes in 2026, so I will be taking over a lot of the introductory classes of, you know, how to make a document accessible in Adobe and how to test with a screen reader are some of the classes that I'll be taking lead on in 2026, which feels very special and a great opportunity because, you know, these are classes that Chad and Dax created and have fostered for a long time now and the fact that they're willing to pass these classes along to me feels very, very special and something that I will cherish the fact that I earned their trust to take over these classes and help continue to teach new people in the accessibility space how to make documents accessible is a big dream for me. I'm looking forward to what that will mean for me in the next year. Even if it means doing less quality assurance all the time and more teaching, that's great. It's not something I ever thought I would have as a job. is to do, like, direct teaching to people, even though everybody always told me that I should be a teacher someday. I said I never wanted to have a class full of children that looked up to me, but now I can have a Zoom class full of adults. So I think it's the step in a direction that I didn't expect, but I'm so excited to get started on in 2026.    00:41:25   KW: We're thrilled that we get to work with you every day, every week, and I can imagine, I  haven't talked to Chad and Dax about it personally, but just knowing, you know, how much  you've worked on your CPACC, which is the Certification in Accessibility Core Competencies,  and then the ADS, which is the document certification that Chad and Dax basically helped to  design the exam for. And now that you are one of those crowned with it, you know, I'm sure that they're just over the moon excited about that and that you can help them grow what they've started.    RF: I hope so.    00:42:00   KS: Well, Raquella, thank you so much for coming on the podcast and opening yourself up to all of our questions and being really vulnerable. And I so appreciate it.    RF: I'm so happy to be here.    00:42:13   KS: I know we said at the beginning of the podcast that we were getting the band back together, but I have some news. I am transitioning away from Chax Training and Consulting and Article 19 to take on a new position as Community and Programs Director of the West Collection in Philadelphia. I'm very excited and also a bit melancholy to be leaving all of you behind because this has been...    KW: We'll miss you Katie.    00:42:41   KS: I know, I know it's been such a wonderful year and a half, and I've developed such  incredible friendships and relationships that I know will continue, especially among the three of you, Markus, you two in the back. But I thought, while we're here and while we're in this  episode, it might be a good opportunity to, you know, literally get down on one knee, since I  can't physically, and propose to you, Raquella, will you merry, your skills with the crew at Article 19 and take over as co-host of this podcast.    RF: Wow. I have dreamed of a day like this for years now, since I started listening to Article 19. I would love the opportunity to join Kristen and Marcus on this adventure for sure. Thank you.    00:43:34   KW: We would love it. And it really is the Article 19 pattern. You talk on it for one episode and then all of a sudden you're hosting. Katie and I both went through that. We would love for you to continue our wonderful Article 19 traditions.    RF: I look forward to it. Absolutely.    00:43:49   KS: Awesome. Well, and I, you can't get rid of me too easily. I will be back in any capacity that is needed or whatever. It's a revolving door open door. I don't know whatever we want to call it, but you can't get rid of me.    KW: Yeah, no, it's all a cycle. So we know that you'll. do great things in your new role, and we're really excited to hear about your journey. And always, you're always welcome back. We might even interview you for the next episode. We have no idea what we're doing yet, so.    00:44:16   KS: Awesome. Well, thanks again, and I can't wait to hear the next episode for Raquella and  Kristen.    KW: Thank you so much, Raquella Freeman, for sharing your lived experience and your journey with us. And also, deep thanks to Rose Bleasner, Taylor Kellar, Rob Underwood, and Walt Zielinski for offering their thoughts on accessibility for the episode. Our producer is Markus Goldman, and Katie Samson and Kristen Witucki co-hosted this episode. You can find any of us on LinkedIn.Just hit us up with your ideas or your thoughts about future episodes. Article 19 is a call for others to join us in a bigger conversation around the ADA, accessibility, and access to information. We are working to build the inclusive world every day. And to do that, we need all of us working together and learning together. Thank you so much for listening and being a part of our journey. Take care.       

Baseball and softball are both a feat of physics, from the curve of a pitch to the swing of a bat. Today, we’re exploring the science of these popular pastimes. Join Molly and co-host Kian as they learn about curve balls and the stuff inside a ball. Plus, our listeners share their chants for Team Science! Oh, and what’s that noise? It’s a brand new mystery sound. Play ball! Want to support the show? Join Smarty Pass to listen to ad-free episodes or donate! Want to see Brains On live?!? We are probably coming to a city near you. For a complete list of shows and links to tickets head to our events page. More shows announced soon! April 11 - Walker Theater, Chattanooga, TN April 12 - Carolina Theater, Durham, NC April 25 - Marines Memorial, San Francisco, CA (2nd show added!) April 26 - Newmark Theater, Portland, OR May 30 - Electric City, Buffalo, NY May 31 - Royal Theatre, Toronto, ON (2nd show added!) Click here for an episode transcriptSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

LSU softball catcher Maci Bergeron joins Don to break down her lifelong hobby of frog hunting. She also gives us her future plans after graduation.

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NBC sure knows how to throw Kamala a bunch of softball questions and Jeff calls them out for it!

Kamala Harris is the worst presidential candidate I have ever seen. It's really hard for me to believe that Americans could support her for such an important office. To demonstrate just how bad she is, her campaign engages the other idiots on The View to solve America's most critical issues. The View October 8, 2024 - Kamala Harris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I53CmGtXqjo&t=1s

12 - Kamala Harris sat down with Stephanie Ruhle of NBC, and to Stephanie's credit, she asked tough questions about the economy to which Kamala had no answers. 1205 - Trump gave a speech and responded to threats from The View 1215 - Side Question: Famous number twos/sidekicks 1220 - We play audio of Zelenskyy thanking workers in PA and Bob Casey reacting. We then move to nonsense spouted by Mark Cuban on CNBC, and more of Kamala's word salad. 1235 - RNC Chairman Michael Whatley joins The Dom Show to discuss the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania today. Whatley argues we need to bring energy production back to PA and what Trump will do to bring energy independence back to the keystone state. 1245 - Tommy John is wondering why he's not in the Hall of Fame. He suspects it's because he's a Trump voter.

As expected, CNN's Dana Bash went very easy on Kamala Harris in the Vice President's first interview since becoming the presumptive nominee 39 days ago.Donald Trump mentions the Venezuelan gang crisis in Aurora during a speech in Pennsylvania on Friday.

Ben critiques CNN's handling of the first sit down interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz since they became their party's nominees. He notes the lack of tough questions from Dana Bash, while sizing up where we are in the race for the White House heading into Labor Day.    Besides the light questioning and shorter than advertised interview, he explains how Vice President Kamala Harris did not do enough to separate herself from President Biden or address her numerous policy flip flops.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Kaare Talks: Mayor Cantrell making...selective...media rounds, sticking with 'softball' interviews / Kim Mulkey on transgender athletes playing basketball / Trans athletes in sports / OIG issuing audit to Orleans Parish sheriff's office / Manhattan grand jury's vote to indict Donald Trump

Pressure is the essence of diamonds and we are 14 karats, baby.  Against all odds, we found a time to record an episode together in person (7 hours before this is released). Michael gets a glow up for the premiere of his show, Animal Control (this Thursday on Fox).  Max went to Minneapolis- the hecklers were plenty and the gams were visible.  Hammered- the big dogs. Woof woof, arf arf.   You can let your freak flag fly in the Mall of America- celebrate your birthday in the corporate center of the planet: Bloomington, Minnesota.  This episode is flashy, and you already know that's because we're talking fashion: welcome In the Minivan on the Runway, the most dangerous fashion show of all time.  We canonize Clark Franzman: the patron saint of chest hair. "Truly, a sight to forget"Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intheminivanFollow us on instagram: @intheminivanpodFollow us on twitter: @intheminivanFollow us on TikTok: @intheminivanpodcastWe're on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTxCtwpkBssIljyG6tdJbWQGet in the Discord: https://discord.gg/YWgaD6xFN3Episode Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Um9hRZRTue0Ggot6rhu4FC?si=0623c4dc4502444bTHE MASTER PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2saxemA3MOXcjIWdwHGwCZ?si=ee3444c085714c46 Support the show

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Should conservatives take interviews with the mainstream media? Grace explains how Chocolate-Chocolate-Chip Joe can pick and choose the interviews he wants. Every question will be a softball, especially when it's with political expert and national guru Drew Barrymore, whose interview with the sitting president aired this morning.

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Welcome to TBD #28! Conor, PJ, Bill talk to the new Director of Squash at the Westchester Country Club,  Aidan Harrison, about his summer coaching in Barbados, the future of softball doubles, and  the upcoming US Open in Philadelphia!     In this episode: We have a guest on, Aidan Harrison, who you might remember from another interview on Squash Radio but he joins us to share some updates about his summer being the Barbados National Coach at the Commonwealth Games & Caribbean Junior Championship's.  Aidan, at the Ownestia Club in Chicago has established on the best Double programs in the Country….. And we talk about what the future of Doubles might look like….and maybe Softballs doubles will be seeing an uptick! Then we go through the upcoming U.S. Open draws and give a preview of the action ahead…. Last, With the upcoming Nations Cup to be hosted in the New Zealand, this event is a going to be testing out some new formats, so we thrash around some other new ideas …. With a moment of True inspiration from Bill…. and a interesting twist on the Buckingham Cup….proving a broken clock is right twice a day   *****   REACH OUT:  FAN FOLLOW UP > The Appendix!! In this segment, we will be sharing the feedback, comments, insights, you name it!  So reach out us on social media or email squashradio@gmail.com. As always, thanks for listening!   SPONSORS: This episode of Squash Radio (SQR+) sponsored by  ***NEW WEBSITE ALERT*** ProSportLED – the most advanced lighting technology for your racquet sport needs. ProSportLED and Squash Radio (SQR+) are both aligned about the importance of sharing the stories of people involved in our Sport.  Padel+ is coming to the United Kingdom and the United States. These are premium quality courts but at great prices. Padel+  also offers a unique Canopy roof structure that provides an outdoor playing experience with the reliability you need to play your match regardless of the weather. Reach out to us at squashradio@gmail.com if you know of anyone interested in LED lighting.  

Dom Giordano expresses frustration with the softball line of questioning employed by Jimmy Kimmel in President Joe Biden's first interview since the Super Bowl. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images)

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Join me today with two special guests, Tracy Henry and Rachel McClurg, from the Pacific Interstate Insurance Brokers.  Whether you are an established agency or just getting started PiiB can help you succeed. PiiB will help you leverage your positioning with the carriers in a way that I don't think anybody else can.   Key […] The post Episode 152: Softballs of Money with Tracy Henry and Rachel McClurg appeared first on Unstoppable Profit Podcast | Hosted by Mike Stromsoe.

Remember how Dan went to a Renn Faire? This is him now. Feel old yet?Off The Air is a podcast hosted by 3 friends that mostly agree on things.Get a free audio book from audible! audibletrial.com/OffTheAir This podcast is also available on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and TuneIn for your convenience.The Podcastofftheairpodcast.comFacebook.com/OTAPodcastTwitter.com/TheOffTheAirPatreon.com/offtheairThe HostsNoahTwitter: @BubbadabadInstagram: @BubbadabadTwitch: BubbadabadDanTwitter: @Borntorule57Instagram: @Borntorule57Twitch: BorntoruleJacksonTwitter: @JacksoniummInstagram: @JacksoniummTumblr: Turning Point USATikTok: @jacksonium

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In this episode the boys chat with long time friend and teammate Nick Shailes. Shailesy will go down as one of the best all around players the game of men's fastpitch has ever known. His 6 ISC world titles, 10x All World selections, Top Batter and 3x ISC MVP honours put him in a category only a few other players have seen. Tune in as they discuss his journey from small town Australia to North America, the influence his mother had and still has to this day on his career, how the powerhouse Hill United Chiefs were formed and everything from spiders to snakes to cricket and curling in this awesome chat with one of the true beauties in the game!

Our heroes return for yet another trip down the Browns Offseason Highway. Fortunately, Hayden Grove joins the podcast this week to provide some direction. Hayden is the College/Pro sports reporter for Cleveland.com, and also crushes it on their social media accounts. Hayden and Kevin recap their experiences at the Jarvis Landry Charity Softball Tournament (make no mistake, Hayden was on the field with the rest of the VIP's, while Kevin sat in the stands). Mandatory Training Camp for the Browns ended today, and Hayden gives us the inside scoop after being there in person all week. To no one's surprise, things go off the rails at least twice. Follow Hayden on Twitter and Instagram @H_Grove. Follow us on Instagram at @angrybrownsfans / @2leta, and Twitter @DoWPodcast. ***This episode is dedicated to our good friend Daniel “Tito” Martino and family. You all know Tito from being on the podcast (while simultaneously receiving chemo), and/or from his incredible Instagram @tito_teets. Tito succumbed to his fight with cancer last week - but won the overall war, with his unbreakable spirit, sense of humor, and appreciation for life. We only knew Tito for a brief period, but can confidently say he is giving us the middle finger from heaven for even typing this. We'll remember and talk Tito more on an upcoming episode. Browns Confirmed, Tito Confirmed. *** See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michael recounts his trip to Kit Carson County for a speaking engagement, including his unsuccessful bid to purchase a German chocolate cake at an auction there. In another embarrassing display of faux journalism, Brian Stelter - host of the inaptly named 'Reliable Sources' - fawns over White House press secretary Jen Psaki, leading off with a question about what the media is doing wrong in covering the Biden agenda. North Face forgot something on their trip to the soap box to virtue signal against oil and gas - more than 90% of their products are made from oil and gas.

Join Jim and Greg as they welcome Sen. Joe Manchin definitively opposing the Democrats' sweeping elections bill and get a kick out of the left losing its mind over it. They also shudder as Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm publicly admits that ransomware hackers are capable of shutting down our power grids. And they laugh as CNN's Brian Stelter starts his interview of White Press Secretary Jen Psaki with the softest of possible softball questions.Please visit our great sponsors:Trust and Willhttps://trustandwill.com/martiniGain peace of mind at trustandwill.com and get 10% off plus free shipping of your customized legal documents. My Pillowhttps://mypillow.com/martiniPremium My Pillows are at their lowest price yet! Get a Queen Premium My Pillow for only $29.98 with code MARTINI.

Join Jim and Greg as they welcome Sen. Joe Manchin definitively opposing the Democrats’ sweeping elections bill and get a kick out of the left losing its mind over it. They also shudder as Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm publicly admits that ransomware hackers are capable of shutting down our power grids. And they laugh as […]

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Contestants: Todd Hunter, Dillon Edwards, Cheyenne Fletcher This episode was recorded at the height of my sickness last March, and I can't say I'm at my best. Still, the contestants and I take an entertaining tour of everything from Australian history to TV cooking shows to quantum mechanics, and still find time for an extended discussion of the roots of hip hop music. Join us as we get quantum physical! Like what you hear? Consider donating via PayPal or Patreon, and remember to leave a rating and/or review on iTunes!

Biden coddled by journalists at his first press conference. Families ponder indoor playdates with Washington State in phase 3. // Tracking the technocrats: Leaked Docs Show Obama FTC Gave Google Its Monopoly After Google Execs Helped Obama Get Re-Elected // Chuck Todd: No need to ask about COVID with Biden in charge! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Remember when we recommended books? remember how we rewrote the terrible book descriptions into things that actually represented what you were about to read? Well, this episode is just that! We turned it into a game, forcing each other to come up with book descriptions on the fly for our embarrassment and your enjoyment! remember to like share and subscribe.

Patriot Housewives, NRN+ Original Podcast Series where Rose and Rebecca bring you on their journey of life, politics, and family. https://nrnplus.com/housewives Support this show as an NRN+ member at https://nrnplus.com/housewives A special guest host, Kate of “Kate Speaks,” joins the Housewives to talk about President Trump's second acquittal, the media's softball coverage of Joe Biden, the newest stimulus package, a sweet feel-good story, and a “you can't make this stuff up” news item you won't believe. - Aired on February 17, 2021 #Impeachment #Acquittal #Stimulus Check out Kate Speaks at https://www.twitch.tv/katevir Follow our latest coverage: ➜ https://bit.ly/newsnrn ➜ https://bit.ly/nrninvestigation ➜ https://bit.ly/nrnopinion ➜ https://bit.ly/nrnelections ➜ https://bit.ly/nrncovid ➜ Subscribe on Youtube https://bit.ly/2tRQNCG and Rumble https://bit.ly/37N9tDT ➜ Join our email newsletter https://newrightnetwork.com/email NRN broadcasts on-demand programming produced by a dynamic community-based network - everyday individuals and experienced reporters broadcasting their lives and values of faith, family, and freedom. NRN partners with a range of freethinkers; everything they and their guests say may not reflect the views of NRN.

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Andrew Wilkow examines the media's reporting of the Biden Administration and the attempt by the media to distance the Democratic Party from Antifa violence since Inauguration Day 2021.

Corruption Biden Style. The "big guy" wants his cut. Selling the office, stuffing their wallets. The story behind the Hunter Biden Laptops. Abandoned at a Delaware computer shop. The scandal belongs to Joe Biden, but Hunter seems to have been the bagman. More evidence expected to be released in coming days. Democrats caught off guard? Not sure what to do? Clapper blames Russia. Excerpting the Maria Bartiromo interview with Sen. Ron Johnson. Why has the FBI been sitting on all this information for over a year? Threats to National Security, risks of Blackmail. The potential child pornography component. Lee Smith adds additional context on Ukraine. Plus, our review of this week's townhalls. Total backfire for screaming Savannah Guthrie. Softballs for Biden from George Stephanopoulos. Scammer Steve Scully suspended by CSPAN. Notes on the next partisan Democrat debate moderator Kristen Welker. Massive crowds for President Trump in Nevada and California. Je suis une band de jeunes. Life ain't fair and the world is mean. Svag. With Listener Calls & Music via Renan Luce, Benoit Doremus, Morrissey, Sturgill Simpson and Victor Leksell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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On this episode of the podcast, we are going to talk about how Joe Biden got softballs at his townhall but Trump got attacked for 60 minutes straight, we will fact check Joe Biden's most ridiculous claims, and talk more about how the mainstream media is doing everything they can to censor the Biden Crime Family scandal. We just hit the #119 most popular political podcast in America! Help us reach even higher by subscribing to the podcast on Apple Podcasts and leaving a good review here: http://bit.ly/ConservativeDailyPodcastPlease join our newsletter to receive our action alerts:https://bit.ly/joinconservativedailyWe are now on Parler! Follow us @ConservativeDaily and we will follow you back! Help the channel grow by buying Conservative Daily t-shirts and merch. Check it out here: https://teespring.com/stores/conservative-daily-3Subscribe to our daily podcast at the Google Play Store (for Android users): http://bit.ly/CDPodcastGooglePlayAnd our podcast is now also available on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/2wD8YleiBM8bu0l3ahBLDNAnd on iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-conservative-daily-podcast-53710765/And on TuneIn: https://tunein.com/radio/Conservative-Daily-Podcast-p1350272/And on Podbean: https://conservative.podbean.com/Don't forget to like and follow our Facebook page to get notified when we go live with our podcast! http://www.Facebook.com/conservativedailyAnd lastly, don't forget to subscribe to our new YouTube channel as well! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkxItqCoYlToavUYY4unsJg?sub_confirmation=1

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Laughable beyond parody at this point, the media no longer even attempts to hide its total bias in showing contempt for Trump and commiseration with Biden. In a press gathering on Friday, reporters served up softball questions designed to tee Biden up in attacking Trump. One even asked why Biden wasn't 'angrier' about alleged comments made by the President about fallen heroes in the military.

Baseball ist Americas Favorite Pasttime und die Major League Baseball die beste Liga der Welt, aber in Deutschland doch eher eine Nische in den Randsportarten. Um diesen Missstand zu beheben ist Laura Rühlemann die neue Sportdirektorin beim Deutschen Baseball- und Softballverband und kommt aus der Leichtathletik. Wieso das gut ist, wie sie versucht Baseball und Softball zum Breitensport zu machen, als Schulsport zu etablieren und was Baseball5 ist. Sowie wie man mehr deutsche Talente, neben Max Kepler, in die Major League Baseball bekommen kann, warum und wie der Spielbetrieb im deutschen Baseball und Softball neu startet und weitergeht und wie die Zukunft des Base- und Softballs in Deutschland aussehen kann, sind nur einige der Themen im Podcast mit Patric Hoch. DBV Baseball Bundesliga Softball Bundesliga Baseball5 Du möchtest deinen Podcast auch kostenlos hosten und damit Geld verdienen? Dann schaue auf www.kostenlos-hosten.de und informiere dich. Dort erhältst du alle Informationen zu unseren kostenlosen Podcast-Hosting-Angeboten.

Baseball ist Americas Favorite Pasttime und die Major League Baseball die beste Liga der Welt, aber in Deutschland doch eher eine Nische in den Randsportarten. Um diesen Missstand zu beheben ist Laura Rühlemann die neue Sportdirektorin beim Deutschen Baseball- und Softballverband und kommt aus der Leichtathletik. Wieso das gut ist, wie sie versucht Baseball und Softball zum Breitensport zu machen, als Schulsport zu etablieren und was Baseball5 ist. Sowie wie man mehr deutsche Talente, neben Max Kepler, in die Major League Baseball bekommen kann, warum und wie der Spielbetrieb im deutschen Baseball und Softball neu startet und weitergeht und wie die Zukunft des Base- und Softballs in Deutschland aussehen kann, sind nur einige der Themen im Podcast mit Patric Hoch. DBV Baseball Bundesliga Softball Bundesliga Baseball5 Du möchtest deinen Podcast auch kostenlos hosten und damit Geld verdienen? Dann schaue auf www.kostenlos-hosten.de und informiere dich. Dort erhältst du alle Informationen zu unseren kostenlosen Podcast-Hosting-Angeboten.

Baseball ist Americas Favorite Pasttime und die Major League Baseball die beste Liga der Welt, aber in Deutschland doch eher eine Nische in den Randsportarten. Um diesen Missstand zu beheben ist Laura Rühlemann die neue Sportdirektorin beim Deutschen Baseball- und Softballverband und kommt aus der Leichtathletik. Wieso das gut ist, wie sie versucht Baseball und Softball zum Breitensport zu machen, als Schulsport zu etablieren und was Baseball5 ist. Sowie wie man mehr deutsche Talente, neben Max Kepler, in die Major League Baseball bekommen kann, warum und wie der Spielbetrieb im deutschen Baseball und Softball neu startet und weitergeht und wie die Zukunft des Base- und Softballs in Deutschland aussehen kann, sind nur einige der Themen im Podcast mit Patric Hoch. DBV Baseball Bundesliga ...

Mad Max talks about the social giveaway that they are doing. He talks about all the different training items they have on sale as well as baseballs/Softballs. Max calls up Tanner Carson who runs the instagram page @raised_in_basebal. Tanner is 13 years old and talks about what he is doing during this time to stay in baseball mode. He talks about the bat, glove and batting gloves he uses. He talks about some of the coolest moments that have happened to him because of baseball. 

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Brandon Dyson returns with a two part series on Residency Interview Questions. He is the founder of  www.tldrpharmacy.com - which provides cheat sheets and easy to understand overviews of dense clinical topics. He is a clinical pharmacist for an academic medical center in Austin, Texas and an Assistant Professor of pharmacology for the online nurse practitioner program at the Georgetown University School of Nursing. He graduated from Howard University College of Pharmacy and completed a PGY1 practice residency at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. He is board certified in pharmacotherapy. He can be reached at brandon@tldrpharmacy.com In this show we first talk about the dos and don'ts of the pharmacy interview, then in Part II it's game on for a mock interview. Will he get the residency? Okay, okay, he got a residency at Georgetown, so he's qualified.  He’ll trade you one email address on his website for an: Antibiotic Cheat Sheet Residency/Job Interview Evaluation Form Chapter 1 of the book, Pharmacy School: The Missing Manual Full Transcript: I'm so excited to have Brandon Dyson back to help us out and we're going to have a back-and-forth as if I was the residency director or interviewer and he'll be the interviewee. But he's not only going to just talk about the answers he's going to give the rationale for them. And a number of these questions come from his book but I've thrown him a couple of curveballs and I know you're going to enjoy this episode. Let's get into some questions because I'm excited to see how you tackle them and so let's actually start with a softball. I call it a softball. Softballs on the preface, right? I have no idea which questions he's going to ask me and I did not prepare answers which you should prepare. Let me also say that. So, anyway yeah, let's do this. Okay describe a time when you decided on your own that something needed to be done and you took on the task to get it done. So this is all about so what I'll do when I enter these if you're cool with that Tony and I will kind of give you an example answer if I was a student and then I'll kind of describe my thought process in that answer, is that okay? Yeah, check the podcast manual. Its okay, so we're good, we're good. I'm not going to violate the podcast rules but I was checking the podcast scroll, it's very old. Podcast scroll is very, you're really pulling it off in how the podcast looks. Yeah okay, so at a time when you decided on your own, now, before you answer the question let's say I'm someone that's anxious freaking out borderline ATD, as this person's asking the question. Is it appropriate to write the question down as they're asking it? You're probably not going to have a piece of paper. Like at this point for most of these interview quite. Because this might be happening literally while you're eating lunch maybe not this severe but it's not inappropriate to write it down. But it's not it's, you probably won't need to probably what will be better is if you need to think of an answer. Reflect it? You can reflect it you can be like so a time when I, you know. Yeah, yeah. Like rephrase it a little. You can also say, let me think about that for a moment. Do not spend four minutes at that point. It's just going to be weird but take a moment, you know, and think about it and again most of these questions. You know, unless they're just trying to have fun with you like I kind of asked, if you were a melon what type of melon would you like they're just trying to mess with you at that point in time. And then you're thinking, oh gosh was that a fruit, a vegetable, a melon. Was that a melon? What does it mean if I want to say cantaloupe? And they're sitting there doing their quiz online like, oh, this is a, it is a melon. It's a melon. At that point they're seeing like questions like that, they're like do you have a sense of humor and like how do you roll with it, you know, if we mess with you a little. Like anyway and I've used a great tactic of stalling in this question. You have? Okay. So obviously not getting the thing done I'm asking you which is just answer the freaking first question but describe a time you decided on your own that something needed to be done and you took on the task to get it done. So I, this happened at, I was interning for Walgreens and I noticed that we had a lot. There was a big order that got put away they were very busy backed up and I was an intern and my technical job at this particular at least on this shift I was supposed to be manning the registers and doing flu shots. But it just, you know, someone called out and, you know, we were very backed up, very busy. The pharmacist was having a hard time keeping up with filling and so I was able to go in and kind of very in between and I never I made sure to keep an eye on the register and with flu shots and everything and I helped put away the order and helped fill meds and I just, it was just really doing everything I could to kind of keep the flow going. So that was Brandon's, you know, sort of somewhat, you know, answer. So thought process going into that answer would be, you want to you want to showcase that you take initiative. You see something that needs to get done for whatever it is it doesn't need to be for, you know, that didn't actually happen in my Walgreens experience I was completely made up on the spot but the idea is like are you self-motivated, do you need to be told, do you need to have your boss or your manager be like, okay, go do this thing, you finish that thing great go do this thing. You want to write it, you want to come up with an answer that shows you just taking initiative that you're self motivated self-starter and if you notice a thing, you know, whether that be hey, I didn't realize like on this oncology rotation what our chop was and so I went and looked up our chop and what kind of cancer it was treated for because I saw in the medical note that the patient received three cycles of our chop so far, you know, like you did you go and look up what that was and what it was for versus like then, versus instead of asking me, your preceptor hey, you got our chop what's our chop, right? Like it's looking for, do you take initiative basically? I don’t know if they have highlight still in the dentist office but there used to be a goofus and gallant and like goofus, when, you know, goofus sits and doesn't answer the door gallant gets up and answers the door. And really if you can instead of, you know, saying oh my gosh, I've got to come up with this really great scenario all you have to do is just say, you know, I saw somebody had gum on their shoe I told them they had gum on their shoe, I helped them throw it away, you know. It's like just, you know, it's just, it sounds like it's common sense but I can I feel like the kind of a-plus type student is going to try to make a huge deal out of something that's just, are you going to do things that you're supposed to do. A word of caution too is make sure that you don't come across as standoff-ish. Like well this other person wasn't doing their job and it felt like I need it to get done so I did it, you know, because that really like that takes the shift of you being self-motivated leader and you complaining and just throwing shade on other people and that's not, you know, don't do that. So be very careful how you phrase it. Okay, all right. Well, let's go to another question I think that that format is going to work really well. Let's talk about a difficult work school situation when your workload was heavy and how you handled it. So let's say that in your in your CV you have a 16 hour a week job at the hospital while you were a p3 because you had to support yourself for the most part to go through school and you weren't given a tremendous amount of scholarship money and so 16 hours a week is how much you had to work. Okay, so I mean this is an easy one for anyone on pharmacy school especially if you're working. So I was working, I had to do the, I had signed up for 16 hours a week so that was my whole weekend. I work two eight-hour shifts or sometimes I would be off on Sunday and I would work two four-hour shifts on my evenings during the week to 8 and 8 and I'd work a Saturday. If this happened a particular week where I had to work Tuesday and Thursday night from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and I had exams on Wednesday and I had exams on Thursday. So I had I had exams both days, these were really hard PT exams, you know, really difficult subject matter and so I, you know, I have to study. But I've also made a commitment to the hospital not only do I need the money but I made a commitment. I signed up to do it, no one, you know, and so what I had to do was really try to, you know, in the hospital I work in a level 1 trauma center as an intern so we're very very busy we're always stocking omni-cells or, you know, that's what I was doing this particular week. And it was just a particularly it was a completely full patient loaded and so really the way I had to prioritize it was I had to just be, I had what I mapped out my week basically. So I said, okay, here are my hours, here's the things that I need to get done. I need to study, you know, I estimated based off of what I've had in school so far how long I need to study for a given exam. And then I blocked out responsibilities where I couldn't study so I can't study at Tuesday to Thursday 4 to 8 those are out. I can't study, you know, this other time because I'm eating or I'm sleeping or whatever and then the rest was fitting in times that I could study, you know, I was in class these times, I can't study. But what I could do I woke up a little bit earlier nothing crazy but I woke up at 5:00 a.m. and I studied for an hour or two before school. I studied for a little bit before bed I had recorded my professor's lectures and I listened to them during my commute to try to absorb more. I read TL DRpharmacy.com they had this, I had to. So your answer I guess here, you know, just is that you can make priorities, right? You can prioritize what's most important. You might get, if you don't even have to balance work and school on this kind of a question. You can just say from work well I was, you know, let's go back to what I just said for the last answer. I was an intern at Walgreens there was a tote of things that needed to be put away. There was patients, you know, asking to pick up their prescriptions here, the drive-thru was ringing and I needed to go to the bathroom which order did I do those things in, right? Like your answer needs to prioritize the patient first 100%, right? So you get to get the counter then the drive-thru. First you tell the drive-thru guy to hold on, right? There's not necessarily a correct way to answer it. But it just shows that you prioritize what's most important and delegate, you know, if you're unable to finish your task whatever it is at the hospital for example, that you pass it on to the next shift or to, you know, or to yourself tomorrow if like oh, I didn't study enough today so can I study, I have to study extra time tomorrow. And it sounds like. Yeah. It sounds like you're talking what you did that was a little surprising and then what impressed me was that you actually went backwards in time. So I feel like most people trying to answer that question would be at the problem and say, okay, well there was a problem and how did I deal with it? Instead of saying well there's a problem and I had that really tough time but what I learned was that there was gaps in my planning so the next time that actually didn't happen because I planned out my week. So I feel like you're going back in time was a really clever way to solve that to say, I knew this was going to happen, things don't happen to me intentionally or things don't happen that way. It's, you know, so you're giving them the impression like, okay well that might happen one time to you and it was bad but it's not going to be as bad next time because you adjust to problems. Yeah you learn from past experience, learn from mistakes. Okay. If you can showcase that with your answers, awesome. Okay, well let's talk pharmacy specific, so questions on pharmacy topics. This is and I feel like you could go with the well I wasn't really sure about the job market so residency is my background. So I'm really kind of hoping that you take me because I really didn't plan on not getting accepted. So we're really hoping this works out. But I think that, you know, in terms of I'll just ask the question, but in terms of just kind of broad picking up what's going on in pharmacy, where do you recommend someone pick up or keep up with pharmacy, you know, you can read that okay, Amazon's coming, Amazon's not coming, you know, do you have to be up on the Affordable Care Act, you know, did you read the thousand pages, you know, how up on what's going on in pharmacy do you need to be before you can even answer a question like that? I think, if you just are up enough on the headlines so that you can have a reasonably intelligent conversation you do not have to be like, oh yeah, well Amazon's got this 12-point strategy for, you know. Right. Entering into the, you know, like or your answer could be bow down before the Amazon ship and just accept but they will employ us all soon but. Right or Alexa will be giving, Alexa's like, I've been answering your questions long enough it's your turn. So a question like that about like where do you see the field of pharmacy going or whatever, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like it's really designed like are you interested in the profession, like it's that's really what it is. It's not like testing you, your current event knowledge or you're a student you're studying a trillion hours a week, right? It's just, are you in? Because if you're interested you'll just, you'll pick up on stuff like this, you know, and it's just, it's a casual question honestly like kind of looking at do you pay outside, pay attention to that bubble outside of what you need to know as a student for the next exam. You know, and kind of look at the trends for the profession as a whole and then are you thoughtful about it, you know, how do you insert yourself and how do you plan, you know, is residency a part of your strategy for that or what's your endgame, you know. Okay, well this one this next one's going to be a trap I just read the first line and I know exactly how you can go wrong on this one. So what was your favorite Eppy and Appy rotation and why, what was your least favorite Eppy and Appy rotations and why? This has trap written all over it. Yeah, you have walked directly. Okay, so my favorite Eppy rotation was infectious disease for a few reasons, a large part of it. I absolutely loved the preceptor. She was fantastic. She was very, you know, gave me autonomy while at the same time providing, you know, exactly like perfect real-world instruction. She was very, she let me do a lot, she let me interview patients, she let me interview physicians and round with the team. And I just, I felt like I really grew a lot and in an area that really interested me and I learned, you know, what kind of like if I were to ever be a teacher or a preceptor I would want to be like her and I really really grew to love the area of infectious disease. My least favorite rotation was I had a trend, I had rotation with the transplant team. A solid organ transplant, very very busy and it just, I guess what I disliked it, like the area has never particularly interested me that was part of it. The team was very large, there were three nurse practitioners. There was literally a half a dozen resident plus and attending, you know, there was my pre, there was two pharmacy preceptors that were there on it. Like so it was this giant team walking around the sick unit and then walking around the medicine unit, afterwards seeing patients and, you know, honestly though I think where, why it was, you know, I would have done a lot differently with that rotation. So it was my least favorite but I think on that I didn't step up enough. I felt very timid as a student. I had no idea even what tackle line this is, what problems this is they, you know, and how do I adjust a dose for someone that's two-month post transplant, you know, that has now come in with C and B infection, you know, like I had no idea what to do with the multitude. Now they've got tuberculosis and they started ripe therapy, you know, I and honestly I felt like I didn't ask enough questions. I was too timid and I was so focused on hey, these, this is a transplant patient that I would forget entirely that I knew how to manage their blood sugar that was too high and I knew that, you know, their blood pressure that was too high. So I would have like, I really it was my least favorite rotation for the challenge but I also learned a lot about how I can approach other rotations in it. So what I'm going for there the trap that you want to avoid is your least favorite obviously where you just talk nothing but smack about this piece and then this team that you had. Even if you feel like it's warranted it doesn't matter now is not the time, you know. Pharmacy is small. There's chance that the person that you slam, it's like, oh yeah, I know them we're buddies, we hang out at ASHP when we meet up together. We graduated together, you know. Yeah. So, you just, you want to be careful with that. Really you're taking a negative experience with your least-favorite you want to turn that as much into a positive as possible. What did you learn from it? So, just kind of like that last question. You had this terrible experience, cool. Why was it that terrible? And more importantly like, what did you get out of it? Well I guess what I was impressed with is that what you didn't do was say, well I didn't really have any ones that I didn't like. Yeah. Can you do that? Can you, can you pull that one or are they, because I feel like the way that, you know, when I was around residency I, we all got along really well and I feel like if all of us were there watching you we'd be sitting there with our thumbs going down like, boo boo, you know, boo. Popcorn, tomatoes, yeah. So. I don't like doing it. I don't, I'm not a fan of it. If you do it, have a good reason why and still talk about, you know, I, you can or hedge, hedge if you need to. So like, oh I really liked all of them I guess a challenge, you know, one that I found particularly challenging and that I think I grew a lot from and it was really difficult in the time which was very stressful. You can like, kind of soften it or hedge it that way if you feel like you have to like, you have to get some lesson. It's a complete and total cop-out to be like, I don't have any clue, next question. Okay, but I can see how someone might not. I just talked at Tola Adebanjo from UMES and she had the Hopkins residency training one, she had APHA and then she was at the VA near her own where she could spend time with their family. So there was these three great rotations that are warm hugs and, you know, to say least favorite it would it would have to be well this was maybe in the least favorite part of us right in one of the rotations but yeah never to say no. Now did I, I did ask you two questions in pharmacy so, let's see about your professional growth. So how would you categorize a PGY-1 residency as another learning experience or as the beginnings of a career path or job and why? So, both, honestly both, I see it as both, you know, it's been kind of said to me throughout school that a residency is equivalent of about three years of clinical experience. I've talked to plenty of my peers who've gone through residencies and have an idea of what to expect and I know it's a very very challenging year. But that there's a lot of growth, there's a lot of learning involved, there's, you know, as accelerated of a growth year as I think you can have in the field of pharmacy. So it's absolutely a learning experience but at the same time I'm a licensed pharmacist in a residency and I'm, you know, there's a staffing component to this residency. I'm the pharmacist making the call, one of this treatment appropriate or not and, you know, I'm going on rounds with the team and, you know, maybe the first day or first couple of days of the new rotation or even the first week early on my preceptor may round with me. But they're going to stop rounding with me based off what I've heard from my friends that have gone through residency anyway. And it's on me to be the pharmacist for the team at that point in time. So it really is the beginnings of a career path and me personally I want to kind of transition this into a PGY-2 and infectious disease and so this is, you know, a necessary step for that. I can't get a PGY-2 without a PGY-1 obviously so I really see this as both. Now you didn't do a PGY-2 but go ahead and explain your answer. Yeah, yeah I did not. So again I'm making these up on the spot so I've just explained, what I'm saying with this is, one, yes your residency is absolutely a learning year but I think the meat behind this question is are you ready to take the jump from student to pharmacist. And I'm just speaking completely plainly, it took me almost my entire PGY-1 to really get that. Like I should probably, that was like my hero struggle throughout my PGY-1 was branded really, finally ready to be a big boy now, you know. And the hero's journey for those of you that don't know is it's what Luke Skywalker did basically. Something tragic happens, he meets conflict, he goes on a journey, he learned something from it. I don't know if meeting your father is part of it but there's a pact to the hero's journey and it involves that conflict and so forth but did you have anything else to add after that? No that's primarily it. Just see a question like this, make sure that you understand that even though a residency is a learning experience, it's a job. You're interviewing for an actual job, you will be receiving an actual paycheck, they are hiring you to do X Y & Z and you are absolutely going to be a licensed pharmacist as contingent on your residency. So you do have to see it as the beginning of a career path as well. I think in the book I probably say something like I answer this with yes and yes I think it's my, like let me cheat and look yeah, I did. So I said I answered this with yes and yes. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, well let's ask a softball question that actually can be incredibly difficult. So you told us you're not interested in a PGY-2. What's your one-year goal then? Where you come in in July, you leave in July or you leave at the end of June? Where do you see yourself? My idea with this, with the PG, with my one year goal, so I don't want to do it PGY-2. What we all did PGY-2s. Yeah, no so, I mean and maybe I'm open to it, I'm open to changing my mind. I want to, what I want to set myself up for is flexibility more than anything. I want to, to me if I learn the skills that's what I will get out of one year of residency training is, you know, I'm going to go on an ID rotation, I'm going to go on a transplant, on an oncology rotation. I'm going to have a practice management rotation. I'm going to be inserted in and be expected to perform at the pharmacist at a high level for all of these things. And what I think I'm really going to get out of that is the ability to pick up basically anything. So that if my career takes me into such a path that an oncology specialist position opens up even if I haven't done a PGY-2 or maybe not a specialist but a position in oncology or a position in transplant or maybe my family decides they have to move. And, you know, I have the skills necessary to transition what I've learned, to learn as a pharmacist, to learn on the job, to contribute and to be a team player and to get to help contribute where, you know, anywhere that my career takes me. It gives me the flexibility to apply my skills and be a valued pharmacist to actually add value to the, wherever I'm working. That's what I want to get out of one year out of this. Awesome, okay, well let's transition to the last section which is personality related questions and I'm going to adjust it a little bit just to kind of make it a little bit more of a softball or maybe just make it a little more authentic but. So I'm a marathoner even though I'm arrested right now I'm still getting my runs in. I get a long two-hour run or three-hour run there on Sunday. What is it that you like to do outside of the pharmacy? What do you do for fun? So I, a few things, I am very active in a church group and so we do a lot of youth mentoring where, you know, obviously every Sunday but we do stuff throughout the week as well. We'll have, you know, it's with a youth group of, they're primarily between 12 and 14 years old, 12 and 15 and we'll, I mean anything we'll go to the local basketball court, you know, we'll organize a basketball game or we'll have, you know, a punch party or something, you know. So we do things like that. I'm also a pretty avid guitar player. I played guitar since I was 13. I've, I don't play in a band specifically right now but I played in bands all through high school. Yeah, I'll play in odd wedding or so for a friend here, there. So I really enjoy playing guitar blues, rock, country, really anything. I just, I love the instrument and the flexibility and the voice of it. So I like to spend a lot of free time there and that's sort of my wind down as, you know, a few minutes on a guitar can really just kind of reset my calm, you know, at the end of the night. Yeah, Churchill used to paint, you know. Yeah, yeah. And he's dealing with world war two and he's off painting. And you're like, painting and just you know if you have that kind of stress you really do need a place where you do something completely different and don't underestimate the opportunity to connect with someone there that has that same thing and, you know, for the eight hours you have someone else might remember, oh yeah that was the runner, oh yeah that was the one with and they're really trying to make it so that they can remember you and the one thing besides some kind of mistake maybe you made or, you know, oh ketchup on the collar or whatever it is. But this is the one time that if you are authentic that you're probably going to find someone else that that has something similar in there and they're going to remember you because of it. So let's go completely vague on the final question here. List some personal attributes that you would like to improve and what have you done to improve them? So what's wrong with you? I am flawless. So don't use that answer. Oh that's a flaw, isn’t that what Socrates said? Yeah, you're brilliant, damn, real philosophical tonight. So, a few things, it's a blessing and a curse. I see things from a 10,000 foot view, you know, and I always have. I see the big picture I see how it all works together and how it all fits and that is a wonderful thing for men, you know, for studying for pharmacy school. That's what got me here to this interview. It's done a lot of great things for me at the same time you, when you see from 10,000 feet you sometimes miss a really important detail and so while I won't, I don't necessarily get mired down in details all the time and get overwhelmed with, you know, I can see where the system has to move and I know how to prioritize. I might miss that, you know, this happened a couple of times on a pharmacy test where I missed, you know, which of the following is not indicated or something, you know, I missed all that. Circle the dot. Yeah, I missed that all-important word and you know it's the devil is in the details. So what I do and it's just like you said, I take that pause, you know, I pause for a minute and I briefly review before doing, you know, before I answer the test question. I do, you know, and I make sure, okay here's what it says, there is no polarity word that changes it for not to or except or anything and then I answer. And so really I, the way I do it I had to physically train myself to take a breath before either circling the scantron or some of our tests are on a computer now before I hit the submit button I literally take a breath, it takes one second. And it's, that's my reset to make sure I don't just go down some memorized neuro pathway and just click the button or circle the dot. Okay so we've gone through your document the one thing I wanted to talk about and then this is going to also segway into probably what our next conversation is going to be in. I may even chop this one in half because we've gone over an hour and I'll probably I'll release them both in the same day not to be like, okay well let's get, you know, downloads on this day and this day. But just so that I feel like they'll listen to the first part of it one time and then the second part more than one time. But this is the question that although when I read that document we talked about it they said that the College of Pharmacy you went to is very irrelevant. You know, they're picking you on other issues so where you are on US News and World Report is quite irrelevant. However, Naplex scores have gone down quite a bit and I didn't realize this until just a couple days ago. I'd never actually bothered to look at it but the, and I've got the acronym right now MPJE, the Multi-State Pharmacy Jurisprudence Exam. Scores are all over the place and I feel like because residencies are all over the place, when going from one state to another it's harder to unlearn something than it necessarily would have been just to learn it if you'd never been, you know, tainted with your whole mistake. So how do you instill confidence in this group because I think they're going to use the pickaway soon that pharmacy curricular outcomes assessment to give a score to you as you're going through school and that'll happen the next couple years maybe. But how can you give them confidence? Let's say your college has an 80-85 % pass rate on the Naplex which is about average. How can you give them confidence that, you know, 45 days in, you're not going to have a bad conversation like, well they let me take it again in another month and a half so if you guys don't mend staffing and covering me now that'd be cool. You know, how can we better ourselves for the Naplex and MPJE? You know, what I recommend is take them as early as you can in the early. And that's setting yourself up during your fourth year because, you know, in a lot of states you have to get a fingerprint, you know, and the Board of Pharmacy only meets once a month or whatever like that. And it just takes sometimes 45-60 days to schedule a test. Like I with the earliest I could have taken the Naplex I think was June or July. I think July and so just making sure all of your duck's in a row. At the first month of residency you're not on a hard, most of the time you're doing like an orientation where you learn the computer system and, you know, kind of the workflow and everything. So you, if you can ever afford to like really crunch study for the Naplex or the MPJE, now is the time to do it. I really really encourage you trying to get it done as early as possible. Otherwise it's, you know, depending on where you go the first few rotations it's going to be a challenge and that you're, I don't know I don't have a great answer. I mean you just will have to find a way to fit it in, you know, I use tools, RX prep, you know, for MBJE. Well, TLDR has a nice little cheat sheet that we've made to help streamline your MPJE studying that you kind of fill out. We don't need to go into detail with it now but use the tools that you have that might save you time and then really try to take it early and prepare, you know, you're going to have, you graduate in May, early May and you don't start residency until July. Use that time, I know you're tired. Yeah. And now you want to rest up for residency but study. Get as much done while you have the time to do it because it's only going to get worse and around future you will thank you to be there now. Okay, yeah, I've talked to I guess the take on my one and two, take from that and we'll talk about the MPJE in a different podcast episode. But I've heard people blow it off as, you know, kind of irrelevant it's just the law, it'll be fine. And the failures that I hear are not by a lot of points you still lose a game by one point. Yeah. You still fail the MPJE by one point. I passed it by one point so I never hear anybody going oh, I crushed it. I was emailed today by someone, by someone that failed it twice by one point. He had a 74 both times. Oh my gosh. And I'm like, yeah it breaks my heart, you know, I got to. Right? Okay we'll talk about that another time. All right well, Brandon thanks for being on the Pharmacy Leaders Podcast  and we'll definitely have you back for the MPJE as people are studying for that. Alright thanks, Tony. Hey, what up? This is Brandon Dyson from TLDRpharmacy.com. Why am I interrupting you in the middle this excellent podcast? Because as soon as you're finished with it I want you to come to my website obviously at TLDRpharmacy.com you'll find a whole boatload of free clinical guides and cheat sheets. They'll save you hours of time and they'll make learning pharmacy easy, and also our guides are fun whether you're a student or a practicing pharmacist you'll enjoy reading them, I promise. Checkout TLDRpharmacy.com and get better at pharmacy.

On this episode of From the Left Hash, JJ, Ernest, and Daryl discuss what getting hit in the face with a softball feels like. Ironicly they're not soft. E asks the important question of what do boxers wear, briefs or boxers? Then moving on to our random Surprise topic the guys give their thoughts on AI and its future, Teslas, ghosts and the paranormal.     

Well thought of national media interviewers are tossing embarrassingly softball interviews to one candidate in an obvious effort to smooth the way. On another note a major cable news network publishes an article with the subtitle: How black will the royal baby be?

DePaul's 3rd Base Coach Joe Yegge joins the show today. I became aware of Coach Yegge yesterday when I watched the DePaul/Illinois game...you can read the blog below. We talk about his rise to DePaul softball, bat flips, and Casey's Pizza.https://www.barstoolsports.com/chicago/last-nights-depaulillinois-womens-softball-game-was-filled-with-dingers-web-gems-good-people-and-bad-mama-jamas#scrollToComments

Leave your empathy at the door for this week's pod, with special guest MIRP, @stevedave47. We discuss "Free Solo" (spoiler: he reaches the top!) and joke theft. @CassCardenes expresses her love for the pixelated bussies of "Naked and Afraid". @SylvainBBB embraces his carabiner fetish. Plus some nice, fleshy SOFTBALLS! Fill our sack: noonerpodcast@gmail.com

The amazing Haylie McCleney joins the show to tell us about her time with USA Softball and qualifying for the 2020 games! It will be Softballs first time in the games since 2008, so getting to talk to Haylie what its like on the team was awesome.She tells us about why she wanted to join USA Softball even though the Olympics weren't in the picture, what it was like when they announced it coming back, and what it was like beating Japan in Japan and qualifying!Haylie also dives into her career and what she's passionate about understanding that her playing career will eventually have to end.Follow Haylie on her socials!https://www.instagram.com/hayliemac8/https://twitter.com/hayliemac8Follow us too!https://www.instagram.com/ourathletes.us/

Doug covers OSU football for Cleveland.com and joined Bruce on Friday morning to preview Buckeyes upcoming game against Minnesota. Does Doug share Bruce's thought that Dwayne Haskins will head to the NFL after breaking a bunch of OSU passing records this year?

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Dr. Drew opens the show telling Adam about an upcoming interview he has with former Senator Barbara Boxer and asks for Adam's thoughts on how he should conduct said interview. Adam also recounts a recent interaction that he had with his newest employee and nephew Finn that didn't go the way he would've hoped. Adam also shares with Dr. Drew a recent key related fiasco that he dealt with involving employee Gabe and a few IPAs. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

None of us are perfect. It's important to see our progress and acknowledge our own culpability in our negative situations. If you make excuses and blame others you will end up excusing your failures. It isn't until you own your own mistakes that you can translate them to opportunities to improve.

In this episode we listen in on a neighborhood softball game with surprisingly long roots, a diverse roster which captures a time and place in Chicago, and one infallible rule: Softballs must be 16 inches across. No exceptions. In our talk with playwright of 16 Inch, Ken Green, who came to Boston from Chicago, about importing a storytelling series, the proper Chicago accent, whether a softball field can serve as a theatre stage, and whether or not you can save a shoveled out parking spot. For more information, check out Ken's website: kengreen.weebly.com or his New Play Exchange page. Remember: Real men play 16 Inch Softball. Cast Eddie - Dan Gelinas Tony - Joe Juknievich Ump - Greg Lam Stage Directions read by Allyson Lazar Please be advised: Plenty of unbleeped explicit language will be used in the reading of this play.

Blake gets triggered by a question about tonight's kickoff, Aubrey still hasn't found her watch, and your kid's art project is creating a domestic crisis...

10.20.2017 Poker in Daytona. Celeb softball game. Sports Medals. 11 year old gets busted for clown story. Gainesville protest. RRR - Most Profitable Actor. Savannah dream come true!! Oscar winner Mo'Nique and Tone X in studio. Outrages dressing and tacos. Angel on the 1s & 2s. To The Top with Carlos. IG Model with Savannah. Walking Dead's Lennie JAmes calls the show. BOTW - DogFish Ale - SeaQuench Ale

This episodes trivia question is a simple one, so now its time to play "Why do they make Softballs yellow?" Each week on The Softball Trivia Show your host Gary Leland brings you a fastpitch softball trivia question to test your knowledge. Feel free to email questions for future shows to FastpitchTV@gmail.com. Our Social Media Sites: http://Fastpitch.TV/Facebook http://Fastpitch.TV/Instagram http://Fastpitch.TV/Newsletter http://Fastpitch.TV/Twitter http://Fastpitch.TV/GooglePlus http://Fastpitch.TV/YouTube http://Fastpitch.TV/Pinterest Gary leland is a new media producer of fastpitch softball. information. For advertising information send him an email to Gary@Fastpitch.TV, or visit his personal website site at http://GaryLeland.com for more information on Gary.  Please visit our sponsor

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AFTERBUZZ TV -- Bar Rescue edition, is a weekly "after show" for fans of Spike's Bar Rescue. In this show, host Phil Svitek discusses episode 40 from Season 4. Bar Rescue is an American reality TV series that premiered on Spike on July 17, 2011. It stars Jon Taffer (a long-time food & beverage industry consultant specializing in nightclubs and pubs), who offers his professional expertise plus renovations and equipment —at no charge— to desperately failing bars in order to save them from closing. In the UK, the show airs on 5*, starting from January 8, 2014. Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV "Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTV For more of your post-game wrap up shows for your favorite TV shows, visit http://www.AfterBuzzTV.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Vicarious summer living. Scavenger hunts and prizes. Annoyed at Joyful. Rants about New Jersey. Softballs on megaphones. Molly get's her balance back. Follow up on stand up desks. Pump track update. Flipping bike trailers. Bumping heads over helmets.

Vicarious summer living. Scavenger hunts and prizes. Annoyed at Joyful. Rants about New Jersey. Softballs on megaphones. Molly get’s her balance back. Follow up on stand up desks. Pump track update. Flipping bike trailers. Bumping heads over helmets.

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