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Policy Matters - Early Education: Bigger than baby steps

Title: Policy Matters - Early Education: Bigger than baby steps
Runtime: 1:33:24
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Join Carol Coultas, Press Herald business projects editor, as she moderates an in-depth discussion with Tara Williams, head of the Maine Association for the Education of Young Children, which promotes high-quality early learning for children, birth through age 8; Cynthia Murphy, who leads CEI’s Child Care Business Lab, which helps launch child care centers; and Jim Clair, business executive and former chair of the Maine Economic Forecasting Commission and an early champion of early education.

Title: Morse High School graduation, 2021
Runtime: 0:15
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Morse High School seniors toss blue and white streamers into the air to celebrate their graduation on Saturday, June 12. Video by Kathleen O'Brien for The Times Record

Gordon Ramsay Uncharted: The Maine Ingredient

Title: Gordon Ramsay Uncharted: The Maine Ingredient
Runtime: 2:51
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Chef Gordon Ramsay harvests seaweed with Melissa Kelly (video courtesy of National Geographic)

Black Lives Matter Walk, Brunswick, Maine

Title: Black Lives Matter Walk, Brunswick, Maine
Runtime: 0:36
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Roughly 100 people walked Hemlock Road in Brunswick Friday, June 4, to denounce racism after a Black Lives Matter lawn sign was defaced. Video by C. Thacher Carter for The Times Record.

Like A Boss: Jeff Brickman, President & CEO of Central Maine Healthcare

Title: Like A Boss: Jeff Brickman, President & CEO of Central Maine Healthcare
Runtime: 59:45
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Jeffrey L. Brickman, FACHE, is the president and chief executive officer of Central Maine Healthcare. Mr. Brickman joined CMH in 2016 coming from Centura Health in Colorado, where he served as group president, Mountains and North Denver Operating Group, as well as President/CEO of St. Anthony Hospital. Before joining Centura Health, Mr. Brickman was system senior vice president of Provena Health and the regional CEO of two hospitals and an ambulatory network. He served as the executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Meridian Health System, and earlier in his career was chief operating officer of Baystate Medical Center, a 685-bed regional referral medical center for Western New England.

Author Colin Woodard on Rum, Democracy and The Crash: The Short History of The Pirates’ Republic

Title: Author Colin Woodard on Rum, Democracy and The Crash: The Short History of The Pirates’ Republic
Runtime: 1:01:16
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: A conversation with author and Press Herald national reporter Colin Woodard on the Golden Age of Piracy and the legendary buccaneers who not only sailed the oceans, wreaking havoc and disrupting trade in the Caribbean, but established their own republic in the West Indies.

Woodard’s book, ‘The Republic of Pirates,’ is now one of the sources of the international hit Netflix docudrama series ‘The Lost Pirate Kingdom,’ which includes on-camera interviews with Woodard on Blackbeard’s pirate gang and their reign of lawlessness on the high seas.

Woodard sat down with Press Herald web editor Katherine Lee.

Title: Russ timelapse
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description

Title: Brunswick Civil War reenactment
Runtime: 0:25
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: The 3rd Maine Infantry Company A, Maine's largest American Civil War reenactment unit, practices musket drills during a training session in Brunswick Saturday, May 15. Video by Times Record Reporter C. Thacher Carter

Title: Protest and March for the Banyamulenge
Runtime: 0:49
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: People protest and march in Portland on Friday to bring attention to the plight of the Banyamulenge people in the Democratic Republic of Congo who are being killed by other tribal militias

Title: Midcoast Youth Center
Runtime: 0:40
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Midcoast Youth Center Executive Director Jamie Dorr says the nonprofit was 'devastated' to learn that the city cut about 90% of its yearly funding during the COVID-19 pandemic -- significantly impacting how the center will operate going forward. Video by Times Record Reporter Kathleen O'Brien

Title: The Times Record ‐ Michael Field
Runtime: 1:33
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Times Record Reporter Kathleen O'Brien speaks with Michael Field, Chief of Bath Police, about his 33 years in policing, how the field has changed since the late 1980s and his hopes for the next chief. Field plans to retire from the force next month. Video by Kathleen O'Brien.

Title: Airboats at Maquoit Bay Landing
Runtime: 0:43
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Maine Game Warden Evan Franklin and Brunswick shellfish harvester Chris Green give an airboat demonstration to a group of legislators, residents, shellfish harvesters and representatives from the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife on April 23 at Maquoit Bay Landing in Brunswick. Video by C. Thacher Carter.

Title: Source Awards Keynote
Runtime: 11:18
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description

The Source Maine Sustainability Awards - 2021

Title: The Source Maine Sustainability Awards - 2021
Runtime: 1:06:30
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: The Source Maine Sustainability Awards are an annual recognition of people who contribute to the state’s environmental well-being.

Title: Ask Maine Audubon: Swarming ants
Runtime: 0:18
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description

Title: Maine Voices Live - Sam Sifton
Runtime: 1:00:34
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Sam Sifton is the assistant managing editor of The New York Times, overseeing culture and lifestyle coverage. He is the founding editor of NYT Cooking and writes a food column for The New York Times Magazine. Based in New York City, Sifton has spent time in Maine every year of his life. His love of the state and its food heritage frequently shows up in his popular NYT Cooking email newsletter.

Formerly the newspaper’s national news editor, culture editor and chief restaurant critic, Sifton is the author of the forthcoming “The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes,” as well as “See You on Sunday: A Cookbook for Family and Friends” and “Thanksgiving: How to Cook It Well.”

Portland Press Herald restaurant critic Andrew Ross leads the conversation with sign language interpretation by MJ Grant.

Title: Newsroom Live with Leonard Pitts
Runtime: 1:01:08
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts joined Press Herald Editorial Page Editor Greg Kesich and Sun Journal Executive Editor Judith Meyer for a conversation about opinion journalism in the era of political and media polarization.

Leonard Pitts, Writer

In a career that now spans 43 years, Leonard Pitts, Jr. has worked as a columnist, a college professor, a radio producer and a lecturer. But those are just the job titles. If you ask him what he does – what he is – he’ll tell you now what he would have told you then. He is a writer.

Millions of people are glad he is. They read him every week in one of the most popular newspaper columns in the country. You, our subscribers, have been reading his column in our paper for over 20 years. Many more have come to know him through a series of critically acclaimed books, including his latest, a novel of race, faith and World War II called The Last Thing You Surrender. Pitts’ stubborn devotion ...

Title: Making It Work: Intern Opportunities
Runtime: 1:00:24
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Making It Work is a live, interactive online series that brings together business leaders who are finding new ways to retain and generate revenue.

Internships provide a vital way for students to get hands-on experience in a career field; for many businesses, they provide a pipeline for new hires. How can your business participate? How do you set up an intern program? Do you have to offer pay?

Two programs are expanding to help businesses recruit and host interns. Maine Career Compass has matched 2,000 students with 80 employers and continues to grow, despite pandemic restrictions, and the University of Southern Maine is expanding internship opportunities under its Career and Employment Hub.

Moderator Carol Coultas, business projects editor was joined by Jeanne Paquette, USM’s vice president of Corporate and Workforce Engagement and former Maine labor commissioner, and Lillian Lema, a USM graduate who interned with Hannaford’s communication dep...

Policy Matters - Broadband - Everybody needs it, so why don't we have it?

Title: Policy Matters - Broadband - Everybody needs it, so why don't we have it?
Runtime: 1:31:57
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Just over 20 years ago, Maine was the first state in the nation to wire schools and libraries for broadband internet, and the first to issue laptops to school kids. But now, Maine bumps along the bottom of nearly every ranking of states with high speed internet. How did we lose that momentum and what will it take to get it back?

The past year has underscored how essential broadband is – for the ability to work from home, to learn remotely and to receive health care services. Efforts are underway on the state and federal levels, including a $30 million initiative unveiled recently in Gov. Janet Mills’ budget. But will they be enough?

Carol Coultas, Press Herald business projects editor, and J. Craig Anderson, Press Herald business editor, moderated an in-depth discussion with Jeff Letourneau, one of the architects of Maine’s early broadband network and now executive director of NetworkMaine, and Susan Corbett, a longtime internet provider in Down East Mai...

Like a Boss: Joan Ferrini-Mundy, President of the University of Maine

Title: Like a Boss: Joan Ferrini-Mundy, President of the University of Maine
Runtime: 1:00:35
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Like A Boss is a live Q&A business event where you can hear insightful, first-hand accounts of the realities of running a business. Our CEO and Publisher Lisa DeSisto interviews local CEOs and business leaders for a behind the scenes look at their career paths, the ups and downs of running their businesses and the trends shaping them.

About Joan Ferrini-Mundy

Joan Ferrini-Mundy is the president of the University of Maine (UMaine) and its regional campus, the University of Maine at Machias (UMM). Prior to joining the UMaine and UMM communities on July 1, 2018, she was the chief operating officer of the National Science Foundation.

After receiving her Ph.D. in mathematics education from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in 1980, Ferrini-Mundy was a postdoctoral associate there, and a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Mount Holyoke College. There she co-founded the SummerMath for Teachers program. She returned to UN...

Title: Retrospective - Noella Rocheleau
Runtime: 0:43
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Noella Rocheleau, 91, remembers when she and other residents at her assisted living facility were told that they had to wear masks and stay in their rooms.

Title: Retrospective - Amey Lewin
Runtime: 0:13
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Amey Lewin, who works at Hannaford Supermarkets in Portland, shares the moment she realized the severity of Covid-19.

Title: Maine Voices Live: Cidny Bullens
Runtime: 59:16
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Cidny Bullens is a musician, activist and educator. Over a four-plus decade career in the music business, Bullens has worked with the likes of Elton John, Bob Dylan, Gene Clark and Rod Stewart. In 2011, Bullens transitioned from Cindy to Cidny, and uses male pronouns, but in referring to their career as Cindy Bullens, uses she and her. In 1978 and 1979, she was twice nominated for Grammy awards, as a lead vocalist on the “Grease” film soundtrack and the following year for her debut album “Desire Wire.”

After stepping away from the industry to raise a family, Bullens spent time in Nashville crafting tunes with country songwriters including Radney Foster and Matraca Berg among others. Bullens’s 1999 album “Somewhere Between Heaven and Earth” reflects on the loss of her 11-year-old daughter Jessie to cancer. It features an all-star roster of guests including Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams and Bryan Adams.

In 2016 Bullens was back in the spotlight w...

Title: BolaWrap demonstration
Runtime: 1:05
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Area police receive demonstration in remote restraint device called BolaWrap.

Making It Work: Is your business prepared for Maine’s new paid time off law?

Title: Making It Work: Is your business prepared for Maine’s new paid time off law?
Runtime: 1:00:38
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: If your business has 11 or more employees, Maine’s new, first-in-the-nation paid time off law applies to you.

All Maine employees – full-time, part-time, paid interns, per diem workers and others – are eligible to accrue one hour of paid leave per 40 hours worked up to 40 hours a year. That earned time off can be used for things like transportation or child care emergencies without notice.

If you want to better understand the new law and prepare for its impact, join moderator Carol Coultas and a panel of local experts.

Title: South Freeport Church Bell Tolling
Runtime: 1:40
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Members of South Freeport Congregational Church ring the church bell for the people who have died of COVID-19. The bell tolled 460 times, once for every thousand people who have passed.

Making It Work: Minimum Wage, Five Years Later

Title: Making It Work: Minimum Wage, Five Years Later
Runtime: 1:03:53
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Five years ago Maine created a new minimum wage law that raised the hourly minimum wage in increments and starting this year, ties annual increases to a cost of living calculation.

How have small businesses and nonprofits, ones without large profit margins, managed the impact, and what compensation strategies can be shared as additional increases are considered?

Special projects editor Carol Coultas talks with a small business owner, a nonprofit manager and an HR consultant about how they incorporate employee compensation into their budgets.

Title: Nor'easter Causes Coastal Flooding
Runtime: 1:23
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Raw video of coastal flooding along Beach Avenue in Kennebunk caused by Tuesday's nor'easter.

MaineHealth transforms former Scarborough Downs into vaccine clinic

Title: MaineHealth transforms former Scarborough Downs into vaccine clinic
Runtime: 1:24
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: MaineHealth staff sets up COVID-19 vaccination clinic inside the grandstand at the former Scarborough Downs. The healthcare network and the developers of the Downs have been working for two weeks to renovate the building and set up a clinic that's expected to open next week to vaccinate a conservative estimate of 1,000 people per day.

Like a Boss: Jay Mazelsky, President and CEO of IDEXX

Title: Like a Boss: Jay Mazelsky, President and CEO of IDEXX
Runtime: 57:55
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Mr. Mazelsky has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of IDEXX since October 2019. Prior to that, Mr. Mazelsky served as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer from June 2019 to October 2019, and he was an Executive Vice President responsible for the North American Companion Animal Group Commercial Organization and key elements of the innovation portfolio, including the IDEXX VetLab in-house diagnostics, Diagnostic Imaging, Veterinary Software and Services, Rapid Assay and Telemedicine lines of business from August 2012 to June 2019.

Before joining IDEXX, Mr. Mazelsky was a Senior Vice President and General Manager from 2010 to 2012 of Computed Tomography, Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Therapy Planning at Philips Healthcare, a subsidiary of Royal Philips Electronics. Previously he held a series of other leadership roles with increasing responsibilities during his tenure at Philips beginning in 2001. Prior to joining Philips, Mr. Mazelsky was at Agilent T...

Stuart Whittier ski cross (USA Snowboard and Freeski Association)

Title: Stuart Whittier ski cross (USA Snowboard and Freeski Association)
Runtime: 0:55
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description

Maine Voices Live with Chris Newell, the director of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor

Title: Maine Voices Live with Chris Newell, the director of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor
Runtime: 1:03:57
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Chris Newell (Passamaquoddy) is the executive director and senior partner to Wabanaki Nations at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor. He is the first Wabanaki Nation member to lead the museum, a recognized innovator in decolonizing museum practices. Newell believes education is a path to making the world a better place for all people and looks forward to a better, well-informed future for us all.

Newell is a lifelong educator and served for six years as the Education Supervisor for the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in Ledyard, Conn. He and his colleagues at that museum co-founded the Akomawt Educational Initiative to respond to the lack of representation of Native history and social studies in public schools in New England.

Newell was the senior adviser on the Emmy-winning documentary “Dawnland,” chronicling the first-ever, government-sanctioned Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the State of Maine. He is also a member of the Mystic River si...

Portland Press Herald - Photos of the Year 2020

Title: Portland Press Herald - Photos of the Year 2020
Runtime: 1:35:34
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Portland (Maine) Press Herald photojournalists show and discuss their best images.

See the online gallery https://www.pressherald.com/2020/12/27/press-herald-2020-photos-of-the-year/

Title: POY VIDEO
Runtime: 12:12
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description

Making It Work: Reflections & Lessons Learned

Title: Making It Work: Reflections & Lessons Learned
Runtime: 1:00:57
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Making It Work is a live, interactive online series that brings together business leaders who are finding new ways to retain and generate revenue.

The arrival of the pandemic this spring sent Maine business people into a scramble, searching for ways to keep the lights on while ensuring the safety of employees and customers. Several shared the thinking behind their difficult decisions and pivots in our Making it Work segments. Now we return to ask, “How did it all pan out?”

Title: Sara Kapinos Plays Violin
Runtime: 2:28
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Nurse Sara Kapinos plays Somewhere Over the Rainbow on violin. Video by Cre8iv Co

Title: Maine Voices Live: Abdi Iftin
Runtime: 57:57
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Abdi Nor Iftin is a reporter and the author of “Call Me American,” a memoir of his immigration to the United States.

Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Iftin learned English by watching action movies. When U.S. Marines landed in the 1990s to get involved in the civil conflict, Iftin felt it was an arrival of real-life action heroes and grew fascinated with American culture. Sporting hip-hop clothes and dance moves, he became known as “Abdi American.”

In 2006, as conflict again emerged in Somalia, Iftin risked his life posting secret dispatches to NPR. He eventually fled to Nairobi, Kenya as he became a target. In an eventual stroke of luck, he won entrance to the U.S. in the annual visa lottery, though his route to America—which was documented on the radio show This American Life—did not come easily.

Iftin is now a US citizen. His naturalization ceremony took place in Portland on Jan. 17, 2019. He lives in Yarmouth and writes a regular ...

Coronavirus vaccines begin at Maine Medical Center

Title: Coronavirus vaccines begin at Maine Medical Center
Runtime: 0:40
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Kayla Mitchell, a registered nurse at the COVID intensive care unit, becomes the first employee to receive Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine at Maine Medical Center on Tuesday.

Vaccine delivery unboxing at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center

Title: Vaccine delivery unboxing at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center
Runtime: 1:33
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center gets its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine, Dec. 14, 2020 (courtesy of Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center)

Northern Light Mercy Hospital personnel unbox the first COVID-19 vaccines

Title: Northern Light Mercy Hospital personnel unbox the first COVID-19 vaccines
Runtime: 0:51
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Northern Light Mercy Hospital personnel unbox some of the first COVID-19 vaccines to arrive in Maine, Dec. 14, 2020 (video courtesy of Northern Light Mercy Hospital)

Title: Making It Work: Trade Winds
Runtime: 1:02:27
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: For many Maine businesses, the cost to ship product to the British Isles and Scandinavia is the same as trucking goods to Virginia. That’s according to an analysis by the Maine Port Authority, which launched a first-pallet free program to tempt businesses thinking of exploring trade opportunities. The program comes at an interesting time: Maine has been investing millions in the International Marine Terminal as Icelandic shipper Eimskip increases its service to Europe, the Maritimes and even Asian markets. And a new administration means new U.S. trade policies. What could this mean for Maine business?

Subscriber Exclusive Event: Get the picture

Title: Subscriber Exclusive Event: Get the picture
Runtime: 1:05:47
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Press Herald photo editor Michele McDonald, chief photographer Gregory Rec and staff photographer Derek Davis \ show and discuss their favorite staff photography from this summer. See some of our talented photojournalists’ best work and hear them talk about how they get compelling pictures in a time with more than its share of challenges.

How to Articulate Your Personal Value Proposition with David Lee

Title: How to Articulate Your Personal Value Proposition with David Lee
Runtime: 43:45
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: One of the foundations of a successful job search or career change is being able to clearly recognize and articulate your strengths, skills, and personal qualities, and how these provide value to an employer. The clearer you are on what you bring to the marketplace, the more confident you will feel, because you’ll know your professional value and how to communicate it.

In this interactive webinar, you will learn practical tools and strategies for identifying your unique set of transferrable skills and strengths, and how to use these in your job search.

David Lee is a career and job interview coach at Heart at Work Associates. He especially enjoys working with young professionals wanting to find a job that makes the most of their skills and interests, and a career direction that they find soul-satisfying.

Title: Making It Work: Expanding Telehealth
Runtime: 1:01:21
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Come January, a host of new procedures will be federally approved for telehealth services, an area of medical care that has exploded since the start of the pandemic. Providers have seen increased patient access and cost savings from telehealth services, while patients get more convenient care. Several Maine companies that self insure are incorporating telehealth services into their coverage plans, perhaps hoping for results like one New York company that saw employee participation rates in diabetes screening jump from 40 percent to 90 percent when it was offered as a telehealth service. But barriers remain, especially around payment parity for providers and the sketchy nature of rural broadband in Maine.
Host Carol Coultas leads the panel discussion.
On the panel:
Danielle Louder, program director, Northeast Telehealth Resource Center
Jasmine Bishop, director of telehealth, MaineHealth
Robert Sprang, director of Kentucky TeleCare, University of Kentuck

How to Position Yourself to Be Hired After 50 with Barbara Babkirk

Title: How to Position Yourself to Be Hired After 50 with Barbara Babkirk
Runtime: 1:03:40
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: How to Position Yourself to Be Hired After 50 with Barbara Babkirk

Presenting an impressive “professional brand” makes you more competitive and is essential to securing the best employment opportunity. In this session, Barbara will detail the three essential “must do’s” for a job search for those over 50 and also address participants’ particular questions.

Barbara Babkirk is a Master Career Counselor and principal at Heart At Work Associates, a career counseling and outplacement firm in Portland that assists with work transitions. Barbara’s specialty is working with 50+ professionals who are exploring their next chapter.