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Happy to report another interview with Mark Whalen on the local television show, Around the Town with Mark. A local TV show in Groton, I spoke about my book The Silent Service's First Hero, but in this epidsode I talk about the history of Groton as a "Naval-Capital Town." Groton refers to itself as the "Submarine Capital of the World,"the origins of which I hoped to discern from my article in Seapower By Other Means. (which can be read here: https://lnkd.in/d2PztiZe) Consider watching! https://lnkd.in/dGtTx5qA

How I am paying tribute to the memory and legacy of Stephen Lawrence today 1. Never Forget - Stephen was a kind, handsome, intelligent ambitious young man; loved and cherished by his family and friends. Stephen was 18 & murdered 31 years ago today in an evil, malicious, unprovoked, racist attack. Decades of failures, corruption, incompetence and institutionalised racism has seen two out of the six accused convicted. If this is still the outcome today in 2024, it certainly goes without saying huge transformations for the betterment of society are still to be made. -We need to combat and eradicate racism. -We require assurance in the priorities of holding police accountable for their actions or lack there of. -The police & CPS need to do everything they can possibly do as a collective, to bring as much justice and closure as possible for Stephen, his family and friends and all of us as a society. ⚖️ Injustice Anywhere Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere⚖️ 2. Take Direct Action - What happened to Stephen, his family and friends has directly influenced me as a person, my outlook and interests and the work I have done and aim to do in the future. I decided to go university to study Sociology and Criminology due to what happened to Stephen. With a somewhat simplistic and naive yet pure and innocent intention, of ''getting the bad police out of the police force''. More recently, I have changed my career path into Law to work towards my goals, to eventually achieve such changes. 3. Contemplation - Today I think about the times that I've worried and cried over the years, thinking about what happened to Stephen and others, and wondering whether someone or a group of people, would do the same to my brother or my dad. Randomly thinking about times that I've only ever been pulled over by the police when driving with my friends, who happen to have brown or black skin. Remembering as a child, my dad telling a police officer "this is the tenth time your lots pulled me on this road this month!... I live here." - Only when the officer saw me (a very light skinned child sitting in the passenger seat looking confused) did his tone and attitude change towards my dad. To hearing my dad's experiences of recent times of" No blacks, No Irish, No dogs" (my dad being a brown/black Nigerian & white Irish man with a thick Dublin accent), and growing up in Ireland as a Catholic brown child during the 1960s. To recalling the utter heartbreak of my dad breaking down in tears one night due to the trauma of years and years and decades and decades of "it". Of Racism. -Its tiring, it's exhausting and every single one of us owes it to human kind to change this. 4. Celebrate our uniqueness and who we are with love and appreciation - -Shout it from the rooftops! -Celebrate our cultures, who we are, where we originate. Today I celebrate my Nigerian heritage, being a princess Anyanwu by blood, of Owerri Imo State and my Great Grandfather the Ebo Chief.

The Time-Wasting Epidemic How much time do you waste on social media or binge-watching TV shows? What if you redirected just a fraction of that time toward something productive? As Maya Angelou put it, “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” What defeats are you allowing by wasting time? What small change could you make today? https://lnkd.in/gp89EU_E

in-house amplifications of shame can incline and veer, even careen people off into a lowered horizon/felt lowered status. https://lnkd.in/enNqt9RS Putting people in their place, as streaming has been the dominant categorical imperatives of norm governance. Large swathes of our knowledge is profoundly dull and lifeless, and even self-righteous moralising, and hardly surprising that shamed people pick on and adapt these purist rhetorical devices. Not good enough https://lnkd.in/enNqt9RS https://lnkd.in/e9V_zAjh

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On this episode of #ASunnierWarmerDay, Edward Dow Bartling, CLU, MBA, FLMI, ACS, AIAA, WPDC, Chief Operating Officer of #FinancialMarketsInc speaks of his mentors and avoiding the three C’s.

On this episode of #ASunnierWarmerDay, Edward Dow Bartling, CLU, MBA, FLMI, ACS, AIAA, WPDC, Chief Operating Officer of #FinancialMarketsInc speaks of his mentors and avoiding the three C’s.

the oscars controversy (will smith slaps chris rock) https://lnkd.in/dCnS7J42 I’m still not over what happened at the Oscars last night. Will Smith slapping Chris Rock was the most shocking thing I’ve ever seen on live TV. I don’t know what to think. On one hand, I understand that Will Smith was offended by Chris Rock’s joke about his movie and that he was going through a lot of personal issues. On the other hand, I think that Chris Rock was just doing his job as a comedian and that he didn’t deserve to be assaulted. I think that violence is never the answer and that both of them should apologize and make peace. What do you guys think? #theoscarscontroversycontroversy, #theoscarscontroversy, #chrisrock, #willsmith, #jadapinkettsmith, #willsmithchrisrock, #theoscarscontroversydocumentary, #theoscarscontroversyexplained, #theoscarscontroversynews, #theoscarscontroversyreddit, #theoscarscontroversysummary, #theoscarscontroversytimeline, #theoscarscontroversychrisrock, #theoscarscontroversyresponse, #theoscarscontroversyupdate, #theoscarscontroversywillsmith, #willsmithchrisrockcelebrityreactions, #willsmithchrisrockdifferentangle, #willsmithchrisrockexplained, #willsmithchrisrockaftermath, #willsmithslapschrisrock, #willsmithslap

It’s important to have passion projects, hobbies and creative outlets. I think it makes me a better writer, but more importantly, I believe it makes me a better person. #passionprojects #audiopodcast #audiodrama #onceanactor #storytelling