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Our guest this week is Lindsay Ward, Regional Director of SBDC at SUNY Brockport. (Small Business Development Center). The trained advisors at SBDC provide free and confidential counseling for a wide range of management and technical assistance for small businesses.

www.sbdcbrockport.org

Hosted by Tamara MacDuff (pickle#1) and Sid Ragona Ph.D. (pickle #2) of Re-Thinking Business: Success Sauce & Two Pickles, Rochester SCORE's weekly podcast.

On this episode of The Voice Podcast, UUP president and host Fred Kowal talks state and national politics with Liz Benjamin, the former host of Spectrum News's statewide political program “Capital Tonight."

Benjamin, who spent 15 years as a hard-hitting political print reporter and columnist for the Albany Times Union and the New York Daily News, moved to Spectrum in 2010. In 2019, she became a managing director of Marathon Strategies, a national public relations firm specializing in strategic and political communications.  She opened the firm’s Albany office just weeks after stepping away from “Capital Tonight” and her State of Politics blog.

Benjamin is known as an astute political insider who knows personally the movers and shakers in state politics. Last year, The New York Times printed her essay on Gov. Kathy Hochul, provocatively titled “Genial and Respectful? Why New York’s Next Governor Is a Radical.”

Kowal and Benjamin discuss the 2023-2024 state budget, the effectiveness of Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state Legislature and how SUNY fared in the state budget. They also talk about recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and national politics, including Donald Trump's chances in the Republican presidential primary and possibly the 2024 presidential election. 

This weekend on Earth Day, April 22nd - we’re dropping the first-ever episode of Climate Change & Other Small Talk! Sunny talks about the 9 stories created by our fantastic international teams. Expect serious themes wrapped in enjoyable stories to ease us into them. In fact, the series is way more fun than dying in the apocalypse. Promise.

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Another tournament and another Juniata championship. Join the best D3 podcast on the planet as the fellas break down the Doc Greene, Tom talks about his trip to Huntingdon, we elect an official student representative and Coach Curley explains the philosophy behind the hardest working team in basketball. And you will absolutely not want to miss the answer to the age old question, “Should I follow my shot?”

The Juniata Men’s Basketball Show is brought to you by @spacemanwmedia in conjunction with @juniataeagles and hosted by Tom Frank, Drew "Biz" Besket and Head Basketball Coach Greg Curley. Send in your questions for the show, please subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts, leave us a rating on apple and spread the word #JuniataNation.

This week on Shorties!, Kate and Claire update you on the Epinephrine Auto Injector Initiative, Provider Job Opening Posts, and the Capital Region Career Development Center.

The Bright Ideas in this episode are brought to you by Vroom and they include  their "Junior Scientist" and "Travel Talk" tip card.

Show links:
OCFS Dear Provider Letter
Email Claire your job openings at csickles@brightsideup.org
Enhanced B5 SUNY/CUNY Early Childhood Workforce Scholarship Event Registration

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Home & Classroom is an interview-style podcast featuring child development experts and Shorties! is a news-style podcast on what's happening at Brightside Up.

Central Queen Academy's Executive Director Ashish Kapadia joins the podcast to discuss the new school year, partnering with community groups to deliver critical services and supports, and addressing unfinished learning through targeted SEL. He also talks CQA's new state of the art facility, working with an architect on the design, and more. 

From finding new homes for desks and other surplus items at SUNY to electric cars, New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act and the federal Inflation Reduction Act, this episode of The Voice podcast is fully focused on the environment. 

Host Fred Kowal discusses the landmark Inflation Reduction Act and the positive impact it can have on the environment and how it advances environmental justice for low-income areas, communities of color and Tribal communities.

Kowal also talks about the CLCPA and where the process to implement New York’s sweeping environmental protection stands. And there’s conversation about several state bills being pushed by UUP to make SUNY greener and a green energy leader. 

Kowal speaks with Sue Fassler, director of sustainable operations at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Fassler is a UUP member who co-chairs UUP’s statewide Environmental Issues and Advocacy Committee. 

He also speaks with Peter Iwanowicz, executive director of Environmental Advocates NY. Iwanowicz has served as acting commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation and deputy secretary for the environment. He was the first director of the New York State Office of Climate Change.

Maureen Foley, Director of New Charters, joins the podcast to discuss the preopening process leading up to the first day of instruction and how schools should prepare for a pre-opening visit from the Institute team. 

Welcome to The Voice Podcast, the official podcast of United University Professions, the nation's largest higher education union.  In our debut podcast, UUP President Fred Kowal talks with past UUP President Nuala McGann Drescher.

McGann Drescher, who served from 1981 through 1987, is the union's first woman president.  A Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the State University of New York College at Buffalo, McGann Drescher oversaw the overwhelming ratification of two three-year contracts with the state.

Those contracts also created what is now the  UUP-SUNY Joint Labor Management Committees. One of those programs, the Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Diversity and Inclusion Leave Program, is named for her. 

UUP represents the faculty and professional staff at state-operated SUNY campuses and public teaching hospitals across New York state. 

UUP is Local 2190 of the statewide union, New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) and national union, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

HRW's John Graff, Scott Roberts, and members of the SUNY ARRIVE Center team, Joseph Storch, Roma Shah, and Morgan Clifford, discuss the development and use of the Sexual and Interpersonal Violence Prevention and Response Course (SPARC). This program assists colleges and universities in training students in the prevention of sexual, interpersonal and related violence through interactive measures (such as providing QR codes around campus that open up to TikTok-like informational videos).

Learn more about SUNY SPARC at https://system.suny.edu/sparc/ 

Learn more about The ARRIVE Center at https://www.suny.edu/arrive 

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presents an incident where two young men are awaiting sentencing for breaking into female students' university email accounts and then gaining further access into their social media accounts to steal their nude pictures and trade them with their co-conspirators.

Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to bidemi@thebidpicture.com. You can also get in touch on LinkedIn, Twitter, the Clubhouse app (@bid), and the Wisdom app (@bidemi).

Vladimir’s audio clips (0:55)

Julie and Vladimir – opening banter, welcome (5:10)

Vladimir’s background/intro (8:30)

24 months in concentration camps, 1300 months of life (10:40)

Childhood memories – an only child, sports, scouts, a good life (11:30)

The Nazis occupy Czechoslovakia when Vladimir was fourteen years old (11:50)

Jewish children no longer allowed to attend public school (12:00)

Taking the train 300 miles to take exams (12:20)

Vladimir and his friend receive their test results (13:45)

Remembering his first, third, and fifth grade teachers (14:30)

Seventh grade chemistry teacher and the academic “contest” with Vladimir’s father (15:00)

March 15, 1939 – the Nazis came to Pardubice (16:00)

Instant implementation of anti-Jewish laws (16:30)

Czechoslovakia split and Bohemia became part of Germany (16:50)

Banishment from theaters, organizations, scouts, and forced to work at age sixteen (17:10)

Jews and non-Jews separated at work – building radios, and a chance to hear the news (18:00)

Called to be transported to Terezín, the ghetto concentration camp (19:25)

Conflicting interests in the war as the Germans were winning against fascism (20:00)

Disappointment with France and Great Britain, and a lack of belief in other countries’ promises, fed into a type of [initial] support for Germany's war efforts (20:45)

The difficulty of maintaining public friendships after the occupation (21:45)

Vladimir’s dad turns down help with luggage to keep friends from getting into trouble for assisting Jews (23:10)

Difficult to talk about family, parents (23:45)

Swimming and skating with his mother, and skiing on vacation, and playing on the mounds of coal at the factory at home (24:00)

Spending time with his dad in the laboratory at work, learning about analytical balances (24:30)

A valuable lesson from his dad about hypotheses and data (25:30)

Stolpersteine commemoration of Vladimir’s parents (27:30)

Life at Terezín (29:30)

From Terezín to Auschwitz, October 1944 (30:45)

“Selection” at Auschwitz and separation from his father (31:00)

Face to face with Josef Mengele (32:15)

Learning about the reality of Auschwitz (-Birkenau) (33:30)

Waiting for his mother (34:30)

Vladimir’s future wife Kitty (35:00)

How does someone survive such an experience? (36:00)

The death march to Blechhammer (39:00)

Waking up to a virtually empty camp, and the ensuing barrage from tanks (40:00)

Bread (42:00)

Momentary fast-forward to bread baking after retirement (43:45)

January 26, 1945 – taking a chance with some guards (44:30)

True liberation at last, bumazhka, and cooking without water (46:20)

A hospital stay, then back home to Pardubice (48:55)

More audio clips to introduce the closing segment of the conversation (49:30)

The beginning of a professorship in the United States (52:00)

Soviet occupation in 1968 leads to Plattsburgh, New York (53:00)

Teaching keeps you young – Forty-four years old for fifteen years (54:45)

A decision to retire (56:00)

“Every chemist is a good cook” (56:40)

Vacations and travel with Kitty (57:30)

Tragedies may not always and forever be in a foreign country (58:30)

Live a normal life, not the life of a Holocaust survivor (59:20)

The shared ordeal at Terezín created a special bond with Kitty (1:00:00)

Students’ stories, students’ interest in his story, student letters (1:01:00)

LINKS

Film documentary 

Homepage:

Return to Auschwitz | Home

and, Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGIWje7EzYs&feature=emb_logo

and,  the GoFundMe site for the documentary:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/r3jpq-return-to-auschwitz-the-survival-of-vladimir-munk

The working title for Julie Canepa’s book is Vlada and Kitty: A Holocaust Love Story.  Slated for completion and publication in 2021. You can visit Julie's website to read excerpts of the book.

smalltowngirlproduction.com

General information about the Stolperstine project can be found online. Here are a few starter links:

http://www.stolpersteine.eu/en/home/

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/germany/articles/stumbling-upon-europes-stolpersteine/

Music for Lead. Learn. Change. is Sweet Adrenaline by Delicate Beats

Podcast cover art for Lead. Learn. Change. is a view from Brunnkogel (mountaintop) over the mountains of the Salzkammergut in Austria, courtesy of photographer Simon Berger, published on www.unsplash.com.

Professional Association of Georgia Educators:  www.pageinc.org

David's LinkedIn page

This episode we talk to Second Mate Molly who navigates large ships around the world and saves peoples lives at sea like it is no big deal. Billy The Bosun is riding shotgun as we hear what it is like being a female in a male dominated industry. We also hear about getting shore leave in Greece, Toyota pick-up trucks, and taking creepy taxi rides. Hear our advice on preparing for Corona virus quarantine and toilet paper shortages.

Drop us a line at theshipslogpodcast@gmail.com

The proper term is "technology educator," but Tim Gregory embodies the modern "shop teacher." The first highlight clip from ClassCast Podcast Ep.019 features Tim "The Shop Teacher" Gregory discussing his family's influence on his education and career path with our host, Ryan Tibbens. They address the complexity of technology education, a working class perspective on college, and becoming a teacher; they even mention "The Myth of the $100k Welder." 

Charter schools in New York trade greater operational autonomy for greater accountability for academic outcomes. We call this the “Autonomy for Accountability Bargain.” But what does this look like in practice? Jeff Wasbes, Executive Deputy Director for Accountability at the SUNY Charter Schools Institute, discusses the renewal process, quantitative and qualitative benchmarks, evidence collection, what it means for a school to be an academic success and more. 

Maureen Foley, Director of New Charters, discusses everything you need to know about the SUNY application process, including the RFP, collecting and documenting evidence of community need, working with Institute staff, submitting a high quality application, and preparing for the capacity interview. Then Dr. Christopher Manning, Executive Director of Buffalo Creek Academy, which was approved for a new charter in October of 2019, talks about how he and the board set themselves up for success.   

In this new series, More Great Seats for Kids, the SUNY Charter Schools Institute takes you deep into the authorization process and the high standards and best practices that make New York’s SUNY authorized charter schools so successful. We will explain what it takes to become – and remain – a high quality charter school and ensure more great seats for kids throughout New York State. 

This preview episode includes a message from Executive Director Susie Miller Carello and a clip of our upcoming interview with Maureen Foley, Director of New Charters, on the SUNY application process.