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The Charlie Kirk Show
Are We the Last Humans? AI Expert Joe Allen Weighs In
"We the last humans? That's a great question. Joe Allen, so I'm just reading some notes here. You suggest that we're staring down the barrel of two different and divergent transhumanist futures. What do you mean? So I think that it's put really well by people like James polos or Mary Harrington. I can't recommend their writing enough. Very, very intelligent. And they are much more fatalistic about this in some ways than I or certainly Steve. Steve Bannon comes out very strong on the point that we just got to stop this. We have to, if not, smash up the machines halt their progress. Polos and Harrington, I think are more fatalistic and what they describe really in essence is a situation in which we in the west are have a choice between two types of worldly power, the kind of Borg that you see represented by people like Google or Facebook or Microsoft, the sort of corporate politically correct Borg that is set up as a sort of police state over the rest of us, or an emperor model, which Musk represents. He's much more of a Caesar Augustus type character. And so it really is a choice, though, not between transhumanism or not transhumanism, is the style of transhumanism because the future that Musk foresees and is actively crafting with his billions is one in which we do create a godlike artificial general intelligence system
WNYC 93.9 FM
"augustus" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Showering woman framed in close up, screams at an unseen attacker. A man in uniforms lives an audience in front of a giant American flag. In your head, you should picture Gene Kelly in singing in The Rain. Just say and in The Rain. Janet Leigh and psycho. Joyce C Scott and Patton. Americans, traditionally love to fight. love the sting of battle. But open up photographer Carell Augustus new book, black Hollywood, reimagining iconic movie moments, and instead you'll see actor dule hill under that lamp. The screaming woman is actor Cindy colleague, and that man in uniform is instead a woman. Actress Aisha Heinz. In the book, Augustus cast black actors and actresses in some of cinema's most memorable moments, placing them in spaces long denied to them. He says that a mission persisted in the 1980s when he grew up watching mainstream hits like Back to the Future and say anything. We were left out of these stories and oftentimes when we saw ourselves in these stories, we were getting arrested or in a prison scene or in a gang scene. And I just wanted to do whatever I could to sort of change up the narrative visually and artistically. I guess the shot is first photographed for the project back in 2010. Before Black Lives Matter, before ask us so white before Black Panther, he knew some people might view the book as a reaction to those events. At some points, I found myself in tandem with these movements. And I just embraced it. What may stick out most in the book is that you won't find a list who's like Denzel Washington or Angela basset here. Not that I guess the sitting go for them. When I first started this book, my fantasy was to get all the black a listers in Hollywood, right? And then I realized if I did that, I would have probably 11 people. He expanded his net, finding performance who may not be household names, but I built a healthy portfolio of credits, like Neil Brown junior, who you may know as Lawrence's quick talking best friend Chad on insecure. Are you rocking a purse? Beyoncé first. See him on carried on the porta potty. Expensive, I know 'cause I bought it. In the book, Brown takes on the role of John mcclane in die hard. Squeezing his way through a tight air vent
Bloomberg Radio New York
"augustus" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"A little more hopeful about the future. That's according to the optimism index from the national federation of independent business. The index posted its biggest monthly increase since June 2021. That said, small business owners still face a number of challenges. Inflation rose from the month of July to August, dashing hopes that consumer prices would go down. Bloomberg economics reporter Augustus arrive says that high costs are still a major concern. So I think the main takeaway of that report is not that small businesses are more optimistic. They're just less pessimistic. So what the numbers showed is that they still see inflation as one of the biggest challenges they're facing, they're still dealing with elevated costs when it comes to labor when it comes to material. That shows in a number. One third of owners plan to raise prices in the next three months, and that's the Bloomberg small business report. What is dedication? The thing that drives me every day is dead is very honest. We call them day to day for short. Every day he's hungry for something. Whether it's attention, affection, knowledge. And there's this huge responsibility and making sure that when he's no longer under my wing, that he's a good person. I think the advice I would give is you don't need to know all the answers. The craziest thing was believing that your dad knew everything. So as a dad, you felt like you had to know everything. You had to get everything right. It's okay to make mistakes. As long as it's coming from love, then it would kind of starts to work itself out. I want him to be able to
TED Talks Daily
"augustus" Discussed on TED Talks Daily
"Of fire devastated Rome. In response, emperor Augustus did something that had never been done before in the history of the empire. He created a permanent team of firefighters. Augustus understood that individuals alone can't protect themselves from fires. They need help from the community when one person's house is on fire, that creates a risk for everyone else's homes. And so what we've had these last few years is like a horrific global fire, the COVID pandemic has killed millions and upended economies. And we want to stop that from happening again. COVID, it's hard to overstate how awful it's been. It's increased the health inequities between the rich and the poor. Survival depended partly on your income, your race, the neighborhood you lived in. And so we should seize this opportunity to create a world where everyone has a chance to live a healthy and productive life. Also, a life free from the fear of the next COVID-19. When I was on the stage in 2015, I was one of many people who said, we weren't ready and we needed to get ready. We didn't. The speech actually was watched by a lot of people, but 90% of the views were after it was too late. So now I hope the need is clear. And of course, we've learned a lot during this pandemic, a lot of things were, well, a lot of things didn't work well. And so we have all that knowledge to build and prevention system. COVID-19 can be the last pandemic if we take the right steps. So how? What are these steps? Well, let's go back and look at what the Romans did. Think about how over time we've gotten good at preventing big fires. Fire prevention is kind of this pervasive thing. It's well funded. It's well understood. If an alarm went off right now, everyone here would know we're supposed to calmly gather, go out and wait instructions. We know that help would be on the way because we have lots of trained firefighters who practice. The United States alone has 370,000 full-time firefighters. Even more than I guessed that number would be. We also have access to water. The United States, for example, has almost 9 million fire hydrants. And so that type of investment, that type of practice, that type of system is what we need to stop pandemics. Now often in movies will have pandemics, and I'm always impressed with what takes place, an outbreak's detected, very quickly, literally within days, doctors are.
WCPT 820
"augustus" Discussed on WCPT 820
"They did Of us at two Yeah gases and Brutus The cafes was the leader of the right wingers in the Senate And in those days it was like a Supreme Court Justice You were sent at the senator You were in the Senate for life And so then there were 13 years of struggle for power and eventually Julius Caesar's nephew Octavian defeated Mark Anthony and Cleopatra And he came Augustus Right And that was the end of the show Well no but that was the Augustus was a very good ever He imposed authoritarianism because the right wingers said game over We're not playing by the rules anymore And it was very good authoritarian but after Augustus there was a whole not so good guys Yeah Including the Caligula in the narrows But then the second century starting with nerva and thrilled markets are really Edward gibbon and historian the 18th century historian wrote that second century Rome was the happiest time in human history and it probably was because it was very progressive It was they had all kinds of things and they established what we consider to be the basics of public safety and health regulations for what they knew Have you read more Have you read mortal republic I don't think so There's a new Roman historian and apologies I can't recall his name But he wrote this book called mortal republic I read it a year and a half two years ago and I was writing my book on oligarchy.
Conversations
"augustus" Discussed on Conversations
"The universe began some big bang under the name stuck but it really wasn't until the late nineteen sixties that it became family established as the the the party line among cosmologists. Now not only we confident there was a big bang but we can probe it's details particularly by looking at the fading afterglow. The heat left over from the big bang. And by data mining that with satellites. You can tell an awful lot about how the universe began what it's made of and and how it's going to end but you raise a question which of course goes right to the heart of trying to understand the universe that if if the universe began with this explosion. What happened before it. More call site exposure and if the subject comes up at dinner parties as it often does when they discover on. Because that's the question everybody asks and the standards used to be for a long period of time. Nothing came before the big bang because it was the origin of time and space as well as mattress. Energy so's hawking one script asking what lies before the big bang is like asking what lies. North of the north pole does nothing. Not because there's some sort of land of nothingness north of the north pole but because they're in such places north of the north pole it's just not defined and in a simple model of the big bang which was the one that was popular back in the nineteen eighties. The one that Hawking made worked on that was it. There was no time before the big bang but that idea of time being part of the physical world and therefore coming into being with the physical world is feige very ancient. One goes back at least so the time of augustus. In the fifth century who said quite explicitly the world was made with time and not enzyme. So the idea that somehow there's a whole eternity where nothing happens and then suddenly bang..
Charlotte Readers Podcast
"augustus" Discussed on Charlotte Readers Podcast
"Organized resource that that says call us and and and and see. If we can help you i would say look around for that and give that a try reach out to that and do the same thing with other fellow humans that you know of the people you know whether it's a friend whether you're minister. What is your coach whether your wife or whether that you're whomever you can think of who who may have the have been successful in some way who whom you admire for some reason Who's a human being who may be empathetic and may be willing to help you and reach out to them. and then So so look for look for some any institutionalized outlet connection any individual outlook our connection and then There things written the southwest and charney book that makes Suggestions they they they interview number of people with post traumatic stress syndrome. Who were in vietnam Imprisoned and they look at ways that those individuals tried to come back Their their stress and their Difficulty and They came out with a list of maybe ten things that characterize those individuals they things like making sure the exercise Looking at spiritual issues looking at possible ways for help but but be sure that if you make an outreach to some institutions law hell are some individual help that you can find it. There's no guarantee that as you know the next day you're going to be cured about your problems. But there's no question that you can be helped and it can be improved so make an effort reach out to institutions organizations clinics or and or individuals that That you may be able to identify and give it a try and and explore and read anything effect and read our book. Exactly i was gonna say and you also read the inspirational stories. That are in overcoming Lessons in traffic over adversity and the power of our common humanity gusts This has been a great Time with you today. I want to thank you for being part of charlotte yours. Podcast insuring your story. Well i appreciate the privilege. I've enjoyed it. I think you've done a great job of focusing on the issues. And i appreciate your guy. It's been fun to work with you. That's it for today. Another found author giving voice to the written words. You can subscribe to this podcast for free at apple podcast. Stitcher spotify heart radio. Most any podcast platform. You like to listen to your podcast. If you like what we're doing. Please consider leaving a short written review on apple podcasts or the podcast platform of your choice because when you do our authors voices travel much farther and wider in podcast land and if you're inclined to help us authors give voice to the written words and you'd like some member only content cultivated by authors is our thanks. Please consider becoming a member supporter. You can find out how to become a member supporter and more about today's show and all previous episodes at charlotte readers. Podcast dot com. Thank you for listening. We really appreciate it. I'm landis wait for charlotte readers podcast charlotte readers. Podcast is a member of the twin city. Podcast network powered by ortho carolina for more information. Go to queen city. Podcast network dot com..
Charlotte Readers Podcast
"augustus" Discussed on Charlotte Readers Podcast
"And is quite amazing. She's a woman of tremendous faith And has overcome from memphis Difficulties medical Horrendous medical challenges and emotional challenges as well and has just as as i said a person of great faith and A close relationship with with with spiritual issues as she has overcome tremendous adversities and and she's a very intolerant of of of of people who are disrespectful of others in aggressive microaggressions if you will That women experience and women of color particular allowed experience and she's quick to try to support These individuals and also to To address the those who are perpetrating. Some of these microaggressions and she she will Try to address that too and offer some pushback in that setting And she continues to do these things. She's a leader within the The pd community both the general law community but also the underrepresented minority groups. And so she when she was asked the question. How did she make it. She said she couldn't really explain it. Although her story has faith built into it which is one of the other I think sort of common denominators that you found For people that survive and learn to overcome When you think about all these people gas in this book and they've gone through You mentioned common humanity. Of course some things can't be solved necessarily but empathy because you might have the fiscal condition that takes a medical intervention and maybe some hope and a prayer and a miracle and so forth and so on but but the the common humanity piece Is this idea one where no man is an island. You know we're all in this together If someone is suffering others can lend a hand and help them get through it. Maybe they'll survive but they get through that part that's most difficult weighing on their weighing on their souls in your match. Yeah i think it's i think it's our reality. It's the reality of the world. it's I don't think it is. It's very debatable. If if you just look at it's there and I think what we hopefully can do with it though is by by by recognizing it and and allowing ourselves to Interact with these attitudes and and with these Opportunities that that our common humanity officers that we can Survive better and then without them and It can really help us. Often tad's to transcend. I mean people come out of these things with a a moines rich life. They come out stronger they come out healthier they come out boy to do their work or they find new new New lives that they can Live and enjoy and be productive. So i think it to the extent that people can be reminded of these natural opportunities and look to take advantage of him I it will give them an opportunity to to to improve their quality of life and to contribute more to the quality of life of of their fellow humans as a as they interact in. I saw that theme in the book. This idea of reinventing yourself. It happened with herman williams. When he suffered a heart condition can continue his profession but he did something else. I think claudia did did that as well to to to move forward i got a few questions. I'll talk about relating to the writing life because when you wrote this book it's not easy to take on tasks like this. Write a book and you did it with several co-authors and i think our listeners might be interesting to know how that process worked with you working with a coupla co authors in terms of planning and the writing and how you work together. Yeah well it. I think we worked together. Basically because we Have mutual respect and for the for ourselves and each other and I think that would probably be the major element and we We had the desire to to I do some good you know to to to I mean they're they're both professional writers. I'm a amateur rider. Vedic surgeon and but we all wanted to do some good and We were able to Recognize and i think what what we could each contribute and how it could best Come together you and your co co-authors. We'll just name him. John land david chen off. And then you had a forward to the book by coach k. Coast to coast szumowski. How did that come about well. It was good. Good luck We we we. I was very friendly with coach amoco. Who's a protege. He said harvard basketball coach. african american out steady Coach well recognize it in the field and he but kind of a protege of coach k. And so coach cage. China knew about us and what we do at had some interest and it was just a spontaneous thing initially and so but we've tried to get him involved that we we're looking maybe doing some other things around that One of the things being ally ship you know how how do people different ethnicities and races and genders worked together to achieve certain ideals by being allies and that certainly applies in no small degree to athletic teenage. You wanna maximize your ls ship on a team and you wanna have mutual respect and appreciation understanding shedder anyway so common human interests common interests in humanity Sorta we recognize what coach k. Had some some interest in that so we brought a may i ask them to sort of collaborate with us a little bit and who knows what war we might do with that. But that's that's sort of the way that happened s. So as we wrap this up and thank you for spending so much time today with us on this topic but as we wrap this up as you say you're in your knife decade given all you've experienced here what you've learned from all these persevering people who had some very difficult circumstances That you discussed in the book What what kind of parting message would you say to those out there. Who are going through some form of adversity right now. I guess the first would be to try to look around and see if there is someone some resource Either.
Charlotte Readers Podcast
"augustus" Discussed on Charlotte Readers Podcast
"And two other people so to say i agree and i think people struggling with trying to figure out what they're going to do in their act three after they've had a career all their lives find something that's purposeful find something. Put your yourself into that you can think can do good for others and You know if you're doing you're not thinking as much you're doing so you know Another another thing you mention Is empathy talk about how empathy might be helpful to the survival. That's a very important. Were in a very important reality an ideal to strive for And it empathy helps the healthy but it helps the help her As much if not more and actually as you as you exercise it and you see it and you benefit from it are you contribute through it. it really is as one of my colleagues Connected the dots. It's really a form of love and People for example. There's a their studies that show that when a doctor expresses some empathy clearly The patient is more gratified. The patient does better. The patient feels better. The doctor feels better. The burnout is less in in doctor. Who offers some empathy and It's it's it's part of the equilibrium equation. I i guess about a common humanity and We we encourage when we sort to talk about healthcare disparities and providing equitable care. We encourage the doctor to quote unquote. Humanize the patient Show some this take even if you just talk about the weather. Everybody experiences the weather by a talks about the women. I if you just have a common identity around the the weather the latest baseball score but in just a little a minute just to let patient oh that you recognize him or her as a fellow human as another human being Some of my colleagues have even talk about addressing patience. Good morning my fellow human and So but it does. Show satisfaction. Let's burn out on the part of physicians. And is this thing worth considering. And we're thinking about an empathy is very very importer. After that one point i noticed that over the over my years must sixties now. Originally doctors took a lot of time. They did get to know you now. They're under a lot of pressure. From from the people they work for and the insurance companies you know to kind of get in there and get the job done and get out and so those that really take that little bit of time even if as you said a couple minutes to to personalize and have a little conversation it does kinda relax the patient a little bit in that process. Well let's do this. Empathy is one of the things That comes to mind when you think about the stories in this book. Because you know if you haven't experienced these things you see what these people are going through and If you try to think about you know you being in their situations Maybe gives you a better perspective on how good you really have it. Because you tackle a number of a number of circumstances in this book. I mean if you look at the table of contents you've got you got Sexual abuse You have people who are suffering You know physical illnesses at birth with down syndrome. You get accidents happen this guy who slammed as a wrestler spinal cord entry but then comes back from that somehow. Miraculously you've got cancer. You got different things but then there are a couple of examples that you use that are doctors. One of whom is speaking of empathy. Top katina who is Sort of embedded himself in a part of the world that not many people know anything about and i think they said it even get here. Hope he doesn't leave talk about tom. Katina minute what he what he does. He's amazing been awarded. The aurora cries As ana as a recognition as an amazing on an amazing recognition at a precursor to the nobel prize quote unquote. Some people. think that's not official in any way. But he is amazing. I mean he as a as a physical specimen able to do the amount of clinical work that he does amount of surgeries that he does the amount of care that he gives under tremendous Circumstances in the stamina. I i mean. I don't know how he does the amount of work that he does but he he obviously has tremendous support and and well coordination ex it must have superb management of of the nurses and the other who helped him and work with him and It's it's interested in terms of his overall humanity even his decision to marry one of the nurses schools A native of african a mixed marriage if you will and She worked with him and they work very well together and she said it keeps them you know gives them a little spark of Encouragement and enthusiasm to say with some of the not just a huge medical problems. They had problems with financing paying their employees. And all but it's just a marvelous example a tremendous amount of work physical and mental and emotional being big done by this fantastic individual. And he just there he just keeps going apparently. Yeah just vast perspective isn't it. It's new the nuba mountains incident sedan. And he has the only doctor for four hundred square miles And so that is quite a sp- the varsity there of course is the environment and what he's facing and trying to do it all alone from a different perspective. You wanted to highlight another person. The but cloudy. Thomas she like you as a i in terms of an african american I think first african american woman in north orthopedic surgeon but then she suffered a I guess through a hurricane and then a subsequent cancer diagnosis with their kidneys. And tell tell bit about her story and what you what you know about her. Well i had the privilege of the pleasure of knowing croix pretty well. I actually We worked together yale for a number of years when she was in her trading as off-peak surgeon there and i was a young faculty member there and i got to know her then and we actually worked together and a number of issues of diversity and inclusion Ah getting more people women and underrepresented minorities involved in the orthopedic profession.
Charlotte Readers Podcast
"augustus" Discussed on Charlotte Readers Podcast
"And coach today have been a trying experience or americans on both sides of the political spectrum. Indeed we have too often lost track of the various trait that makes the good great and the great even better and what that is is our common humanity. Most of us at some point will be struck by one. More major ed traumas violent crime domestic violence rape child abuse a serious automobile accident. The sudden death of a loved one a debilitating disease a natural disaster or war. This is a quote from southwick and charney and they wrote if you are lucky then you have never encountered in the of these misfortunes but most likely you will some day. It is estimated that up to ninety percent of us will experience some of them during our lives ninety percent that makes adversity a more prevalent malady than even the common coal and far difficult to treat. There's no single prescription that can cure the ills or even relieved The symptoms but there is one well proven treatment for adversity. our common humanity that binds us together and instinctively leads us to want to help one another my knife decade of life has left me humbled with a deep respect and appreciation with those who have overcome more than i have currently and at least as much as i did as a boy emerging from the black saw i rely on a walker the support these days but that walker might just as well be the broad shoulders of those who boosted me up. When i needed it the most physical therapists helped me to walk again. Just as men like my stepfather and dr jones benson campbell in. Tony davis helped me to learn how to run. Both literally and figuratively no one succeeds in a vacuum. No one makes it a long and a truly great joy of life is celebrating our common humanity that has the potential to make each and every one of us better. We all so much more similar than different. Our humanness is greater than our cultural. Differences and differences in status are ranked or racial differences in the final analysis. We are just simply all fellow human beings and that's what's the ensuing. Chapters are going to demonstrate in stark fashion. You are about to meet a diverse group of people know two stories of the same but in a cumulative sense they offer hope through any number of ways and perspectives humanity translates into resilience all of our subjects faced adversity and found a way to overcome it benefited from the bonds of our common humanity. That unites all indeed. My fellow humans as woody guthrie famously sang in his classic song. John henry a man nothing but a man. Well well said her. Like to slide. Where it i. E is more prevalent malady than the common cold and even more difficult to to to cure to treat and then You talk about Role so much more similar than we are different. And you mentioned your own personal adversity. You suffered a stroke And you've had to deal with it versus. How was your journey then in that regard. Lucky i've you know i've been able i don't know how what percentage of my capabilities have remained in other words Ninety two percent. As as okay as i was before the stroke or am i ninety nine percent or am i sixty five percent. I don't really know. I don't really worry about it. I just am happy that i can do a lot of the things that i want to do. And and focus on that. And i do that and I i don't feel you're depressed. Discourage or I just keep keep moving and And that's that's that's my plan you know and if i can just You know get an getting a good enough lawyer to get my wife and my daughter to let me continue to work Auction your work a little bit. But they have to make a decision as i'll do that inside of family outside of them but no they they mean the best one me and they are helping tremendously to continue and and you're my professional colleagues as well so i i'm going to slow down and But my plan is to try to continue to do a few things. There are few things that that i want to try to push. Push agenda for a little bit as we go forward and that's great and You know guess you raise a number of questions in this book Number questions in this book. have we cope. Where can we find the resilient overcome the changes that are forced upon us. What might our future looked like. You know how to deal with trauma and you have a conclusion section. We're gonna come back and talk about some of these stories. But i just want to talk about these things for minute you you you dress these issues of. How do you survive how you learn. How do you overcome. And you mentioned four or five different things in this conclusion. Just like to talk about those for second One of them you mention is having a purpose living. Purposeful life talk about that. Yeah well Of course It gives you a target It gives you an incentive. it's gratifying. you know if you say. Here's here's what i want to try to do. And here's why. I want to try to do it and so let me try and to the extent that that you feel like It it's worth whatever it was. Whatever you pushing whatever it might be. is is very gratifying. And gives the incentive to keep going and and. I think that that's just part of our human nature we we want to is it Amid della out Philanthropic brain That part of our brain actually pushes us in the direction to do the right thing. And so the extent that we can grasp that and utilize that it will be satisfying to you and enter your fellow humans.
Charlotte Readers Podcast
"augustus" Discussed on Charlotte Readers Podcast
"The oppressions of race. So i didn't have You know. I was never accosted by police. never had that it's barest And i did have some little issues. I worked as as a as a car hop in a drive in movie for a period of time and the movie was A a white movie but we had the shoveled us who was black and we we worked there. We sold coke and we went from carter car. And i had some conflicts there with some of the white people in in the in the vicinity and some of the people who work there but it was nothing. You know nothing horrible. Nothing compared to what it could be what we see unfortunately so i have sensitivity and i had ratio pushback and i was taught to push back and try to do the right thing and to try to support our justice in equality and on that On that point tear. You're you're raised in this environment. Where there's the separateness going on. And on the cover yearbook overcoming a notice that there are two hands are clasped. It looks like one Hand of a person of color one Potentially a white hand to hands coming together. Two different races clasping hands together talk about the symbolism of these class hands and how that ties into the thing with your book well it's It ties in the sense that it represents my belief and my hope and my experience of college anything but allies ship. If you will where people of different races and ethnicities can come together and can work together as allies to do the right thing and You know the right thing is no big secret as we have a propensity to know what's right but it isn't always so easy to do and I think that the symbol of the potential of overcoming can be greatly achieved by allied ship by working with people across racial and ethnic in gender barriers to to look for the right thing and into recognize that is in all of our collective best interest as fellow human beings to do the right thing. And when it's it's a win win situation rather than a lose lose situation at. I've had a little bit of experience with the war and was the military and And thinking about these things and observing these things and spending a year as a combat certain vietnam one of the things i learned and It I in some way symbolizes again. These these hands different color coming together and that is i believe that in wars there are no winners there. Only loses and greater losers. There are no winners. You don't win a war you you can't you. I check with my buddies at west point. I said my crazy am i right. Can you tell me of a war. Where one side. Only one did lose anything and Am i crazy to say this as no such thing as a war where they were winners is just loses and greater losers So i believe that. And i think that we we need to strive to have win win. Rather than lose lose situations around issues of war and take. Those hands is a one way of sort of symbolizing. The desirability of trying to relate style common humanity in a way that it's a win win rather than lose and a great great loser s very very. well said i'm wondering also is there any symbolism because it looks like there's a hand reaching down to grab another hand and and it's it's the it's the black hand reaching down to grab and pull the white hand up. Is there any symbolism there. Well We talk for half an hour cover arab debates about over and between by various people it influenced me and that i care about i learned from my wife and my daughter we went back and forth and they didn't like it and they liked it and which chan with with on and off so we just settled for the fact was mixed fried to rep these idea. Try to represent Our common humanity and various iterations of that and the fact that in overcoming we need to try to be collaborative and mutually respectful. And seek a win win situation. We're gonna talk More about the some of the antidotes stories that are in the book and explore some more of these things before. We do that. part of charlotte. Here's podcast is having authors. Give voice to their edwards and you've got a rating it's from your august some bits and pieces from that section that you're going to share with us so anytime you're ready gus. If you would read that force we love to hear okay. Well i appreciate your your your contribution to that in terms of the given me some selection And it was a excellent recommendation. So i i am ready and Let me gather myself here. And i will read my fellow. Humans the pioneering black physical anthropologists physician and civil rights leader. Dr montague cobb used to begin all his speeches with that salutation. My fellow humans in this day medical and scientific audiences rarely heard addresses from black scientists. Back to cobb's quote. my fellow. humans was greeting but it was also an announcement. He was acknowledging listening in front of him. As fellow humans by the same token he was reminding them that he was there. Bella human have a doctor back to cobb's by fellow humans salutation for my own speeches as a homage who both his greatness and the virtual nature of the message the phrase imparts because we are better and stronger together than we are apart. The nature of people coming together for common good seems so far fetched in these tribal times. We experienced at present where we allow what separates us define us far more than what bonds us together i for one refused to accept that if i've learned nothing else in my many years as a surgeon it's that everyone's the same when you open them up and one man leads the same as another these last four years. The last one in particular you know. Society.
Charlotte Readers Podcast
"augustus" Discussed on Charlotte Readers Podcast
"We provide access to exclusive audio interviews between me and who have appeared on the show where they share their wisdom about writing in the business sobriety. It's a great way to get get education for your lifelong learning. Like i am but enough with this pro. Let's meet today's arthur. Gas walk into the show. Thank you thank you happy to be here. Yeah so happy to. have you understand that. You're coming to us from western massachusetts which you say a small town outside of boston. That's correct yes a skit well before we get into your book which i really enjoyed I wanna talk to you. Bet your your past and You've received many awards You're there number. I in your life. You're the first african american medical student at stanford you're the first black surgical resident yale first. Black professor surgery at yale. The first black chief of service at harvard teaching hospital. And you've been called the jackie robinson of orthopedics which i love that how that so. How does it feel to be called. Jackie robinson of orthopedics. Well first of all. I'm way out of my league when you put the Injectables me with jackie robinson. And i don't mean that just in terms of our relatives athletic skills but just prominence in our names clearly he is a real icon but I i'll take whatever. I guess. I'm here i i admire him. I greatly and So it it. It's inspiring and it's sort of fun i i i don't mean any harm doesn't do anybody any harm makes me feel good and It is a challenge some somehow to be visibly the first in these situations and they carry stress and they certainly care there. This is satisfaction and they gratification. And i've had the good what should to You know need a lot of people along the way. And i tend to be a bit of a hero worshipping anyway. I mean i have a long list of people that that really inspired me. You know and And i i did aside with them just enough to get that at inspiration. Muhammad ali is an example. Malcolm x's that example bobby kennedy's example another a number. I my my colleagues and a number of my mentors. As i've come a long vertical school i i have peer mentors and So so i it. Kinda naturally feels good to to get a chance to be connected. A little bit with jackie robinson. Well that's nice did you. So what was your sport growing up. Well my sports were boxing football wrestling lacrosse and an almost tennis. I tried to electron. It's a lot but at my stepfather Was a boxing coach. And at a young age. I i enjoy learning a lot about boxing from him and then the other sports i just did in the normal course of things that i played football in high school and in college and i wrestled in high school in college and played lacrosse lacrosse. Not a sport down in memphis. But i learned in prep school I went to northfield mount hermon school and Was able to be on the lacrosse team there and really enjoyed that a great deal speaking of athletes. I couldn't get connected as publicly as i would have liked. But i play lacrosse against jim brown brown i. I don't know if you know that. But he was a excellent lacrosse player. Probably is good if not better in lacrosse uneven. His other sports especially that's interesting because I play college football and in the spring of my senior year. I didn't have. i didn't have spring practice. I saw these guys though in this ball around with stick and i walked over and so what are y'all doing cliff. Replacing the cross is a club. Team cannot join in. I did in the first game. I ever saw was the first lacrosse game. Played in and so like you. I played midfielder. It was a lot of fun but Yeah okay we digressed a little bit there. Let's jump back on topic here This book that you wrote you talked about You know always been kind of a hero or spring in effect. The the people that you write about in this book are heroes As well as that kind of what led you into this idea of riding a book to support these stories. Well yeah i think part of it i He rose in and mentors. I feel like. I learned a lot from other people as i traveled. And and again part of it was first of all it would be somewhat admired respected. And then i would. I i would Saudi seek the truth and what they were saying. And if it made sense to me i would. I would absorb that and and live by and and be helped by it And i think so. Admired things when i saw them. And i guess it was this kind of a natural evolution of that that particular characteristic and And i think the other the other. The other characteristic was that i I think that i just. I like people. I enjoy people and to see them be successful and try to share their success with others. I think was what i like. And then of course it saying that you have recognized and pointed out Also is this idea of our common humanity and how that resonates with these ideas of of success and being able to be a resilient And and and use these characteristics and as exemplified by others. Help us to do it in in our lives. Yeah we're gonna we're gonna talk more about those things and also about some of the specific people that she followed in this before before we do that you've overcome some adversity in your life to you. You grew up in the jim. Crow era Mfs and i was just wondering. I'm sure you face some prejudices yourself growing up how that Affected you what you saw and how that sort of drove your life experience. Yeah well yeah it it The environment of memphis I was in a culture which i call it kind of a middle class culture. But when i say that i mean middle class african american and that's not the same as middle class as we. We learn in the in the sociology. Textbooks of the overall dominant culture. But it was. It was a culture that imply sized education it emphasized What the person was doing as as as i would hear it as we would hear. What are you doing for the race You you're at You're elevating the respect of the race. Are you a detracted from respect. And so what are you doing. And so i would. That was the scene. The the people associated with were Friends or by parents and their kids who they were. They were schoolteachers. There were ministers were physicians and and so we heard that a lot and they were the people as i said the people who were admired the teachers and so forth so i just picked up on that and it became part of my persona was to to do what i could who Move forward for justice and and to move forward for pushing back against.
Charlotte Readers Podcast
"augustus" Discussed on Charlotte Readers Podcast
"Support for charlotte readers. Podcast is provided by charlotte mecklenburg library connector of readers leaders and learners with twenty locations and a twenty four hour online presence at c. m. library dot org welcome to charlotte meters podcast authors. Give voice to the written words in this episode. Visit with dr gustis white. The third co author of overcoming lessons trapping over adversity and the power of our common humanity a collection of real life profiles of men and women united by the theme of overcoming adversity. After the collective trauma america experienced in the corona virus pandemic. dr white was motivated introduced us to everyday individuals whose grit determination and resilience serve as an inspiration to make it to the other side of. This crisis aren't duck and former secretary of education and president. Barack obama about the book in overcoming. Dr gus white has fashioned timely and terrific treatment of the human condition and instructive roadmap.
Skeptiko - Science at the Tipping Point
"augustus" Discussed on Skeptiko - Science at the Tipping Point
"But most of us have that drive to tweak to feed to have what wealth we need the things we want we so there's always been this contrast the people can somehow divorced their actual lives and their experience from how studying history and again. It's there is a great danger. If you write about about cesar written abandoned nato onto the great particularly in the ancient well but some extend even in the modern world you never quite know what someone else was thinking when they do something and the extent to which they are thinking rationally. Oh they've just got up. They've they've had a bad cold the last few days they don't feel well let's still sleeping. They go and do this to someone and most most of us. What we say doesn't matter but some people have every really does because they they have they're in positions of authority at the danger is that you create an image of what you think season was like all cape pat traumas nyc and then when you come to a gap in the souls you fill it in with. This is what macy's would have done. And i try to avoid that but in the end you have to think it's rather like you know. Big contrast is the ways made between julius caesar and zero custos the one gets murdered spectacularly on the eye of march stabbed to death. Bipartisan cassius listed of augustus becomes the first proper emperor creates the principle is system that will ask for centuries and the classic contrast is well of course this shows. He's much politically savvy. He understands he doesn't upset. The senate no list of until you actually look and then see that caesar is only in rome. Full half a year having fought civil war constantly and then his monitored and he's murdered by people who by the time we get to augusta's they're will dead and most of the people thought like when everyone's watching this is what happens if you think and act that way. Augustus has decades. He lives far longer than anyone expects and survives. He doesn't have to keep fighting civil. It's a different but if you look at look chronologically look what seizes. Actually doing where he is what he was doing. Then all these ideas well. He should have thought of a solution to this. You should have done. That didn't have the time. It's like alexander the great dreaming that he was planning this great society. This great you empire. That would do this do that. What he's actually doing is writing marching on foot traveling sleeping under canvas fighting lots of battles the nearly all his life. He doesn't have a lot of time and in that sort of situation. Those more immediate factors like the people tried to kill. You will probably fill your mind to a decree that ninety percent of when we really busy doing something. The abstract thoughts don't really come and the mo- simply having to live if you're struggling to stay warm at night because your camping in the weather's bad and getting enough to eat event going to file it. Those things stop you thinking necessarily might clear your mind and you might come back from that trip..
Harvard Classics
"augustus" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Felicitous of solomon prosperity is not without many fears and tastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes we see. In needlework and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground then to have a dark and melancholy work upon a light some ground judge of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the i certainly virtue is like precious odors most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed for prosperity death best discover vice but adversity death. Best discover virtue essay six of simulation and dissimulation. Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom for at ascot a strong wind and a strong heart to know win to tell the truth and to do it therefore it is the weaker sort of politics that are the great dissemblers tacitus sayeth livia sordid. Well with the arts of her husband and dissimulation of her son attributing arts or policy to augustus and dissimulation to tiberius. And again when you. Sinus encourage thespian to take arms against the tellus. He sayeth we rise not against the piercing judgment of augustus. Nor the extreme caution or closeness of tiberius these properties of arts or policy and dissimulation or closeness are indeed habits and faculties several and to be distinguished for if a man have that penetration of judgment as he can discern what things are to be laid opened in what to be secretive and what to be showed at half lights and to whom and when which indeed are arts have state and arts of life as tacitus. Well call them to him. Habit of dissimulation is a hindrance and a porn us but if a man cannot obtain to that judgement then it is left to him. Generally to be close ended assembler for where a man cannot choose or vary in particular there it is good to take the safest and where east way in general like this going softly by one that cannot well see certainly the ablest men that ever were have had all openness and frankness of dealing and.
Short Storiess Podcast
"augustus" Discussed on Short Storiess Podcast
"Do not escape every day as she urged it. Her brother's wished nothing better. And the family returned to cumberland from there. Being no upstairs in the house it was impossible to make any great change in their arrangements. The sister occupied the same room. But it is unnecessary to say. She always closed the shutters which however as many old houses always left the top. Pain of the window uncovered. The brothers moved and occupied a room together exactly that of their sister and they always kept loaded pistols in their room the winner past the most peacefully and happily in the following march. The sister was suddenly awakened by a sound. She remembered only too well. Scratch scratch scratch upon the window and looking up. She saw climbed up to the top most pain of the window. The same hideous brown shrivelled face with glaring eyes looking at her this time. She screamed as loud as she could. Her brother's rushed out of their room with pistols and out of the front door. The creature was already cutting away across the lawn. One of the brothers fired and hit it in the leg but still with the other leg it continued to make way scrambled over the wall into the churchyard in seemed to disappear into a vault which belonged to a family long extinct the next day the brother summoned all the tenants of chronicling grange and their presence. The ball was open. A horrible scene revealed itself. The vault was full of coffins. They had been broken open and their contents. Horribly mangled and distorted were scattered over the floor. One coffin alone remained intact of that. The lid had been lifted. But still lay loose upon the coffin. They raised it and they're brown withered. Shriveled mummified but quite entire was the same hideous figure which had looked in at the windows of kraken grange with marks of a recent pistol shot in the leg and they did the only thing that can lay of.
Short Storiess Podcast
"augustus" Discussed on Short Storiess Podcast
"Fisher may sound like a very in name but this family is a very ancient lineage. And for many hundreds of years they have possessed a very curious. Old place in cumberland which bears the weird name of craw glynn grange. The great characteristic of the house is that never at any period of it's very long existence as aben more than one story high but it has a terrace from which large ground sweep away towards the church in the hollow and a very fine distant view when in lapse of years. The fishers outgrew. Croghan grange in family and fortune. They were wise enough not to destroy the standing characteristic of the place by adding another story to the house but they went away to the south to reside in thorn thornton near guilford and they let chronicling grange. They were extremely fortunate in their tenants. Two brothers and a sister. They heard their praises from all quarters to their poorer neighbours. They were all that is most kind and beneficent and their neighbors of a higher class spoke of them as a most welcome addition to the little society of the neighborhood on their part tenants were greatly delighted with their new residents the arrangement of the house. Which would have been a trial too. Many was not so to them. In every respect croghan grange was exactly suited to them. The winter was spent most happily by the new of croghan grange who shared in all the little social pleasures of the district and made themselves very popular in the following summer. There was one day which was dreadfully annihilating hot. The brothers lie under the trees with their books for it was too hot for any active occupation. The sister sat in the veranda and worked or tried to work for in the intense sultry. -ness of that summer day work was next to impossible. They dined early and after dinner. They still sat out on the veranda. Enjoying the cool air which came with the evening and they watch the sunset in the moon. Rise over the belt of trees which separated the grounds from the churchyard seeing it. Mount the heavens till the whole lawn was bathed in silver light across which the long shadows from the shrubbery fell as if in boston. So vivid and distinct were they when they separated for the night all retiring to their rooms on the ground floor for as i said there was no upstairs in that house. The sister felt that the he was still so great that she could not sleep and having fastened her window. She did not close the shutters in that very quiet place. It was not necessary and propped against pillows. She still watch the wonderful the marvelous beauty of that summer night gradually. She became aware of two lights. To lights which flickered in an out in the belt of trees which separated the lawn from the churchyard and as her gaze became fixed upon them she saw them emerge fixed in a dark substance a deafening ghastly something which seemed every moment to become nearer increasing in size and substance as it approached every known. Then it was lost for a moment in the long shadows were stretched across the lawn from the trees and then emerged larger than ever instill coming on as she watched it the most uncontrollable horror seized her. She longed to get away but the door was close to the window and the door was locked on the inside and while she was unlocking it she must be for an instant nearer to it. She longed to scream but her voice seemed paralyzed. Her tongue glued to the roof of her mouth. Suddenly she could never explain why afterwards the terrible object seemed to turn to one side seemed to be going round the house not to becoming to her at all it immediately. She jumped out of bed and rushed to the door but if she was unlocking it she heard scratch scratch scratch upon the window and saw hideous brown face with flaming is glaring at her. She rushed back to bed but the creature continued to scratch scratch. Scratch on the window. She felt a sort of mental comfort. In the knowledge that the window was securely fastened on the inside. Suddenly the scratching sound ceased and kind of pecking sound. Took its place then in her agony. She became aware that the creature was unpicking. The lead the noise continued. Any diamond pane of glass fell into the room. Then a long bony finger of the creature came in and turned the handle of the window and the window opened and the creature came in and it came across the room at her. Terror was so great that she cannot scream. It came up to the bed and had twisted. It's long bony fingers into her air. It had dragged her head over the side of the bed and had bit her violently in the throat as it bid her her voice was released and she screamed with all her might and main. Her brother's rushed out of their rooms. But the door was locked on the inside. A moment was lost while they gotta poker and broke it open. Then the creature had already escaped through the window and the sister bleeding violently from a wound in the throat was lying unconscious over the side of the bed. One brother pursued the creature which fled before him through the moonlight with gigantic strides and eventually seemed to disappear over the wall in the churchyard then he rejoined his brother by his sister's bedside. She was dreadfully. Her and her wound was a very definite one but she was of strong disposition. Not given to romance or superstition and when she came to herself she said what has happened his most extraordinary and i am very much hurt. It seems inexplicable but of course there is an explanation and we must wait for it the it will turn out that a lunatic from some asylum and has found his way here the wound healed and she appeared to get well but the doctor who was sent for to her would not believe that she could bear so terrible a shock so easily and insisted that she must have a change mental and physical so her brothers took her to switzerland being a sensible girl. When she went abroad she threw herself at once into the interest of the country she was in she dried plants. She made sketches. She went up the mountains and as autumn came on. She was the person who urged that they should return to croghan grange. We have taken it. She said for seven years and we have only been there one and we shall always find it difficult to let a house which has only one story high. So we had better return they're lunatics..
Short Storiess Podcast
"augustus" Discussed on Short Storiess Podcast
"You magnificent person. I'm delighted that you are here. I'm robert crandall. I hope you will tell a friend. And i hope you are well in pre of were sadness and despair on this episode. We have a horror word of the day and that word is mandatory spilled m. i. n. a. t. o. r. y. defined as something mandatory is threatening menacing looming or ill boating in other words Military might make you fear that something bad or violent is about to happen. There are mandatory. Word's mandatory threats and warnings mandatory remarks and declarations mandatory emails and letters mandatory gestures mandatory facial expression like gazes and glares a military style or minute tori tone or even mandatory silence. Mandatory is certainly a present in our feature story in this story. A girl is attacked by a vampire. Do you believe in vampires. I've read some convincing stories about them. Is it really possible though for something to sustain life. Fa vampire is live by ingesting blood. Ladies you may want to make sure your windows and doors are locked. I hope you enjoy the vampire of krog..
Around the Rim
Lynx Legend Seimone Augustus Announces Retirement From WNBA
"Is both and exciting but also a sad moment for us here on the around. The rim podcasts. As to rica. And i are welcoming in a future hall of famer that has decided to hang up her kicks for the very last time. And it hurts. I'm not gonna lie. Because simone has given me personally my best memories on the court in interviews off the court and i know she has miss so much to our game into so many people if you don't know the resume the number one overall draft pick in two thousand six to the minnesota lynx. She will retire as one of the most prolific basketball player of all time. She won four championships with the links. Eight all star appearances six. All wnba teams three olympic gold medals. And we will get into the lsu days in a moment. But please join us in welcoming simone augustus to the show. Welcome simone thank you. Having been a few days since you're announcement like how you feeling now versus yesterday versus the day before hasn't set in like. What do you feel like. I'm still getting adjusted. Still get adjusted I was african yesterday. My teammates stealing player mode a little bit late to the game. Shoot arounds and all that. I'm still like what what do i do. I go you know type in you know even i this morning. I'm like sitting around trying to figure out what to do but Soda was surely like coast. Freight is always in my ear lt. Everybody's like picky those fights and don't get in there and talk to the girls whenever now more than ever. The girls are just starting to pull me to this out. Like you need to get some shots up. Compelled me or whatever. So it's it's been a smooth transition but it's still a little bit of adjustment like densely To go from being a player to coach
WBZ Programming
Boston Area Firefighters ‘Completely Encrusted In Ice’ Putting Out Triple Decker Fire
"Two multi alarm fires yesterday, one of them deadly. Two people lost their lives in the five alarm ER in a triple decker Ron Jocks Avenue. Officials say another person suffered life threatening injuries. WBZ TV Snake Commons at the scene. The visibility in his area was really bad they could barely see through the smoke. The flames were shooting out of the building. Once firefighters were able to get their bearings in this neighborhood here. They came across the person who had apparently jumped from a rear balcony off this triple decker here. That person we understand, suffered life threatening injuries. They were taken to the hospital. We do not have an update on their condition. But again, this fire was incredibly fast Moving. The big concern was other buildings as well that are within feet of this triple decker. They did not want this fire to spread. Ultimately, when firefighters went into the building to try to put out the flames, it was just Too bad inside and they had to evacuate. Firefighters also dealt with a three alarm blaze on William Street. Wester City manager Edward Augusta says this has been an extremely trying day for the community. Augustus also thank firefighters and emergency personnel for battling for two temperatures and weather conditions that created challenging situations for Everyone involved. The CDC is
Encyclopedia Womannica
Storytellers: Lorraine Hansberry
"Today's storyteller was a playwright and activist. Who stories centered. African american working class families despite tragically short career. She became the first black woman to have a play produced on broadway half a century later her work remains one of the most celebrated snapshots of black struggles and black joy. Here's the story of lorraine hands berry lorraine hands berry was born on may nineteenth nineteen thirty on the south side of chicago. Her father carl. Augustus was a prominent figure. Within the city's black community having founded one of the first african american banks growing up lorraine and her three older siblings played host to a number of famous people including langston hughes. Wabc boys duke ellington and olympic gold. Medalist jesse owens. Despite their middle class status and cultural connections the hands berries were still subject to chicago's deeply ingrained. Housing segregation agreements known as restrictive covenants were widespread throughout the city. White property owners could collectively agree not to sell to african americans. This practice created a ghetto known as the black belt which ran through the south side when lorraine was eight years old. Her father secretly bought a home. In one of the so-called restricted heads in nineteen thirty seven when the family moved in a white mob attacked a brick was thrown through the window narrowly missing lorraine the local homeowners association filed an injunction for the hands berries to vacate lorraine her siblings were chased spat and beaten during their walks to and from school the supreme court of illinois doubled down on the legality of the restrictive covenant. And the hands. Berries were forced out of their home eventually the. Us supreme court overruled this ruling on a technicality. Thirty blocks subsequently opened up to black families across the south side while this ruling and the hands fight did not outlaw restrictive covenants. It did signal. The beginning of the end for the practice lorraine attended. Chicago's englewood high school where she became interested in theatre. She initially attended the university of wisconsin. Where she cut her teeth with the communist party but left after two years in one thousand nine hundred fifty lorraine moved to new york to be a writer by nineteen fifty one lorraine had found a home in harlem and began socializing with many of the great thinkers who had once visited her family back in chicago. She started writing for paul robeson freedom a progressive newspaper at a protest against racial discrimination at new york university lorraine met robert number off a jewish writer. They married at her family home in chicago. In nineteen fifty three in nineteen. Six robert co wrote the hit song. Cindy oh cindy it's prophets allowed lorraine to stop working to focus on writing. She began developing a play that she initially called. The crystal stair langston hughes poem mother to son she would later changed the name to a raisin in the sun. This too was from a langston hughes poem called harlem. What happens to a dream deferred. Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun or faster like a sore and then run a raisin in the sun centers on a black working class family in chicago south side as they try to improve their financial situation. The patriarch of the family has died and a ten thousand dollar insurance payout is imminent they the money to buy a house in the cheaper all white neighborhood nearby to they use it to invest in a liquor store and education lorraine based many of the characters on the families who rented from her father and with whom she attended high school the cast safer one character was entirely black lorraine was in her twenties and the play itself dealt with racism life in chicago's black belt and the pain of assimilation into white culture topics that were considered risky for the predominantly white theater. Going crowd it took over a year to raise enough money to put the play up. When it debuted in nineteen fifty-nine a raisin in the sun was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on broadway and the first to be led by an african american director lorraine was twenty nine years old. The play was an almost instant. Hit the new york drama critics circle named it. The best play of the year just five months after its broadway debut arisen in the son of in london's west end in nineteen sixty one. A film starring much of the original cast was released and several of the actors received golden globe. Nominations perhaps the most important element of the play success was that entailing box stories. Lorraine also make theater accessible and previously unimaginable ways as the writer. James baldwin noted. I had never in my life seen so many black people in the theater and the reason was that never before in the entire history of the american theatre had so much of the truth of black people's lives and seen on the stage. Black people had ignored the theatre because the theatre had always ignored them lorraine would go on to finish in stage. Just one other. Play the sign in sidney bruce. Deans window about a jewish intellectual the play which explored themes of homosexuality and the bohemian lifestyle. Debuted to mixed reviews in nineteen sixty four. It ran for just over one hundred performances closing on january twelfth. Nineteen sixty five. That's same day. Lorraine hanbury died of pancreatic cancer. She was thirty four years old. After lorraine's death. Her ex husband robert had several of her plays produced posthumously to be young gifted and black became an autobiographical work. Drawing on lorraine's letters interviews and journal entries the title came from a nineteen sixty four speech of lorraine's when she spoke to the winners of a united negro fund writing competition. She said speech though. It be thrilling marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times it is doubly so w dynamic to be young gifted and black
5 Minutes in Church History
The City of Carthage
"Welcome back to another episode. Five minutes in Church history on this episode. We're going to a place to a very famous city in the ancient world. The city of Carthage Carthage was first settled by the Phoenicians. This of course was a crucial city right as were on the Mediterranean Sea. Carthage came to be known as the master of the Mediterranean. Sea Trade after the Phoenicians was part of the PUNIC. PUNIC empire, and then under Caesar Augustus who reigned from fourteen BC to twenty seven ad. Of course, this is the Caesar Augustus of the Gospel Narratives in the birth of Christ under Caesar Augustus Rome to control of Carthage and it became a great Roman city. It was second only to Rome and the Roman Empire Rivaling Alexandria from time to time for that position, but most give it to Carthage. At any given time in these centuries, the population of Carthage would be two hundred fifty thousand people that had all the telltale signs of a Roman city. There were theaters in the republic buildings. There were the extensive baths. There were aqueducts for. Water across the city, and even into the fields for farming, there was an extensive Roman road system. Soldiers were kept. There was a very busy port city and a very prosperous city. It also has quite a role in church history. It was the home of Talionis. Of course. Is that great church father from one sixty to two twenty as the one who gave us the word Trinity, and brought together all that biblical teaching of who got is in his Trinitaria and being, and so we have the word trinity coined at Carthage and two Oh. Three Carthage was the site of the martyrdom of perpetual and Felisa toss those very brave young women, and the wonderful story of their martyrdom in their courage in their stand for Christ. Well, it was at Carthage. and. The to fifty CIPRIAN was bishop of Carthage. This was on the heels of the decian persecution very intense persecution by the Roman emperor Shas. And after the persecution, and there was some relenting of it, folks were allowed back into the church created quite a controversy was known as the Donna test controversy that raged throughout the church from the fourth to sixth centuries and a key player in that controversy was CIPRIAN Bishop of Carthage. In three ninety seven. It was the site of the Third Council of Carthage. And the topic of discussion was the New Testament Canon and coming out of that council was an affirmation of the twenty seven books of the New Testament, so it played a role in the Canon controversies in development of the Early Church and in four sixteen, the Palais jeans were condemned at Carthage, so it played a role in the development of the doctrine of original sin. So what a fascinating city with rich history both in terms of the ancient world end in church history well as Rome was sacked by the barbarians in four ten carthage was sacked by the vandals and four, Twenty Nine Carthage became the capital of the vandal empire which spanned across that great north. Coast, and of course that North African coast had the Mediterranean Sea to the north, and the vast Sahara desert to the south. Is Long came on the scene, the six hundreds, and began to threaten from the East and Right at the end of the six hundred at the battle of Carthage Carthage fell to Islam. It was dominated by Islamic control. There was a brief time during the Crusades when Carthage was retaken, but only for a short time. It remained Muslim throughout the era of the reformation and right onto the present day. Carthage in the present day is a suburb of Tunis. Capital city of the North African nation of Tunisia. Tunisia's the first government North Africa to give protection for religious freedom. But the nation itself is still dominated by Islam and while there is a church. They're going way back to those early centuries. It is still a church that suffers persecution in our present day.
This Day in History Class
Wairau Incident - June 17, 1843
"This Day in history class is production of iheartradio. Hey all I'm eve and welcome to this day in history, Class A podcast that flips through the book of history and tears out a single page every day. Today is June seventeenth twenty twenty. The Day was June seventeenth. Eighteenth forty-three. A clash between British emigrants and Mary known as the wire incident took place on the South Island in New Zealand. It was the first major armed conflict between Maori and British immigrants after the signing of the Treaty of Tonky. The new. Zealand company was a British. Joint Stock Company responsible for the colonization of New Zealand in the eighteen hundreds. It's and director Edward Gibbon. Wakefield believed that a successful colony needed to attract a balance of capitalist laborers. The company claimed to have purchased land in the Cook Strait, read and established settlements at Wellington and Nelson. While the Europeans were purchasing land in New Zealand representatives of the British Crown and Mary, Chiefs signed the Treaty of White Tonky. In May of Eighteen, Forty Lieutenant Governor William Hobson declared British authority over New Zealand. Since the Treaty of Weitang, he was signed. There has been debate over its terms, interpretations and differences between the Mary text and the text. The treaty was meant to recognize Mary ownership of their lands and give Mary people, the rights of British subjects that said many Maori were later dispossessed of their lands. Anyway the New Zealand Company promoted the country as a Briton of the south, and it began to organize large scale migration to New Zealand. But the fertile land required for all the Europeans migrating to New Zealand, did not actually exist. The company was failing. Because arable land was limited land titles were uncertain. There were two mini absentee landowners, and there was no real way to generate income through exports. By eighteen forty three, the immigrants were struggling with food supply, and the company was basically bankrupt. Throughout the early eighteen s more European, emigrants Nelson despite conflict between Mary chiefs over claims to the land being sold. But when it became clear that there was not enough arable land around Nelson for the immigrants, the company began moving forward with plans to survey the wire planes. MARY TEVES NOT TOWA TEI row per ah-ha and others were adamant that the company had not purchased this land. Despite this opposition, the company ordered survey parties to begin work in the UAE Ravelli. So, some of the chiefs. Era and victim the surveyors they burned some of the shelters that have been made from local materials and destroyed some of the surveyors equipment. Police Magistrate Augustus. Thompson issued a warrant for the arrest of involved teeth on charges of arson. A group of about fifty special constables were sent to wire it to execute the warrant. They were armed but inexperienced. On, June seventeenth eighteen, forty three, the company party arrived on the eastern side of the to a marina stream. Mari gathered on the other side of the Stream. It's unclear exactly what triggered the fighting? Though some are accounts, say that a wife may have died I from a stray shot, regardless of fight ensued and twenty two Europeans, and somewhere between four and nine Mary died. Many European immigrants feared that this was the beginning of a larger Mary Insurrection When the new governor Robert Fitzroy arrived in New Zealand that December. He was tasked with
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach
Bill Noble on Garden Design
"Now. You were not a garden designer. Then and here you came to this place, and there's views of mountains and feels, and it feels like a big open place, but. You weren't a garden designer. SORTA figured out how to make a plan. And you speak about in the book about measuring the House and measuring the distance to things and kind of drawing and taking photos and kind of pinning up that and some inspiration on almost like a mood board to get started like you know to figure out what you were going to do, yes. Yes I came here not as a gardener. But I felt that I needed to learn really quickly. And and the way I learned was that. I had been farming and. As I. Tell Maybe in the book I made. Five thousand dollars at it. My first year felt great, and I made five thousand dollars at farming my last year and I'd had enough. And I landed a seasonal job restoring a half miles worth of white, pine and hemlock hedges at the Saint God's national historic site, in Cornish, which was the garden of Augustus Saint Gaudens and was part of an artist colony that included architects, landscape, architects and artists. Like Gerald Plot and Ellen Shipman And I really immersed myself. In the Garden Gardens, but it, but then in learning about the gardens that those artists had made. A really came to gardening? As an art form I. And then I had to learn. How to draw. and. Deal with hard scape, which still not very good at. but the National Park. Service was great about supporting. It staff. By providing training and I spent a couple years running down to Boston to Cambridge to the Radcliffe Institute and to the Arnold Arboretum and guarding the woods and learning the trade there. Okay, I'm applying it. on the job at Saint Gaudens and here and in some of the other Corner Gardens. I see so. One of my favorite parts of the book, besides all those big leafed plants in that was seventy foot, long border or something. It's just magnificent. Is that you make a list in the book that I find especially helpful I think you call it guiding principles and and I know this was after the fact because you started making the garden in nearly thirty years ago or twenty years ago, and you wrote the book just recently, but but it's good for those of US making Gardener Getting Ready to find tuna. Revise our gardens to think about guiding principle so is this something like this sort of self assessment? What do I really care about? Is this something you do with clients when you first visit there places? If the let me get away with it, yes! And, sometimes, sometimes more successfully than than others. Yeah I don't have a form. That I had a a client, but I I WANNA. I as a designer WANNA be able to understand the context. The built context, the living context the landscape context. And the social context as well as how the Oman Gardner is going to use the US the space use the garden, and what their what their goals
This Morning with Gordon Deal
Trump's ambitious infrastructure vision faces Senate GOP roadblock
"President trump faces a clash with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans over the president's desire for a two trillion dollar infrastructure spending bill something he promised during his twenty sixteen campaign what's going on here here to explain is Alex Bolton senior staff writer at the hill Alex set this up trump earlier this week in Dorsey two trillion dollar infrastructure package of member during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign he blocked his opponent Hillary Clinton formally proposing something like two hundred seventy five billion dollars for sure after trump one thing big old robot that failed to materialize during its first three years in office now he sees an opportunity on on Twitter earlier this week you need to call in dollars but that is facing opposition from his allies in Congress Senate Republicans Mitch McConnell the Senate Majority Leader he's putting the brakes on a package that is emerging from the house he said look we need to wait for me to figure out what we need to do it would first need to address the direct economic fallout from the across the borders the crisis before going on to sort of more tangentially related policy priorities which is what infrastructure is yeah you said the the phrase there is tangentially related I guess Augustus of an infrastructure bill would had some benefit or spur vide some help to the economy during the pandemic well I mean we just are I mean just this week or more than there are more than six billion unemployment claims this is a an all time record on top of that more than three billion last week so in two weeks we'll see ten million claims for unemployment benefits that is the sky high record shattering all previous records so I think the thought or discussion right now this marks the record is that the need is going to be more media more acute than anything that two trillion dollars in infrastructure can address I'm sure instructions nice but we are in a crisis right now people need money to pay the bills pay the rent for groceries is infrastructure projects that said take an introduction you can take a year to two years perhaps longer to get the money on the economy that takes way too long and you know they remember the lessons from the two thousand nine American recovery and reinvestment act passed under president Obama during the last financial crisis that took a long time for those benefits to matriculated in a bombing that a lot of heat for the economy taking so long to respond speak with Alex Bolton senior staff writer at the hill his pieces called trump's ambitious infrastructure vision faces Senate GOP GOP roadblocks so at this point even though infrastructure might be beneficial to members of Congress coming up for election in November phase four of a relief for stimulus bill it might be more likely at this point well if the question is what's going to be in the face for stimulus bill and Nancy Pelosi the speaker and co chairman of L. conference calls this week saying they want infrastructure would be a major major component of that space for bill now what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that look this this is hello C. subscribing to the attic you over Obama Kerr chief of staff Rahm Emanuel bill number never let a crisis go to waste in other words you can use the crisis to achieve policy goals that you have been able to previously the instructor kind of falls into that category now only people she bills the president this is an opportunity to get a break through something that they've long wanted immediate pressure talks going on well before the coronavirus crisis and so I just think right now we're gonna include top sellers will consider it to be wrong with it because while it there are potentially long term economic to be sure to package it really doesn't address the immediate economic fallout of this coronavirus cases which as I mentioned has created a ten million unemployment claims in two weeks what is our treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin say about all this he seems to be the go between between say the White House and Congress these days well I mean he said in a recent television interview that he's at the grocery store Richard Neal with democratic chairman of the house ways and means committee and eagle east twenty to move forward so he would like to get this done and he doesn't need to have a bit of problem debt Republicans in Congress to do what I eat all you know that during the negotiations of the packaging to truly dollar perhaps two point usually about package we'll see what the dust settles when those negotiations were going on if some Republicans were critical writing we wonder what she'd do to this plane for
Mike Gallagher
Chicago, Thirty-seven-year-old Herath Augusta and Eric Garner discussed on Mike Gallagher
"And brutalizes because we built Disney History that's what they've been doing okay there's no question you can brutalize people just because you're protesting people protested the Chicago police responded by releasing. The body Cam footage of the shooting more. Coverage from ABC this Chicago lions against racism and political oppression United with black lives matter are planning a protest tonight at six o'clock. At seventy I and Jeffrey to demand Justice for Thirty-seven-year-old Herath Augusta's calling for a civilian police accountability council chosen by the people. To investigate instead of the city's civilian office of police accountability, we want these things investigated because we know that the police you know Amac amac clean on these issues that they. Have a duty record CPT released body camera video yesterday Augusta's was stopped by police who believed he had a gun the video shows. What appears to be a handgun and clip talked into Augusta's pants then moments after police approach him the video shows Augusta's walking. Into the street appearing to reach for the weapon in his, pants okay The video, is not entirely clear but if he isn't reaching for his. Gun it's hard to understand what he's doing I mean it's and by the way. Does he have a clip at, eight gun in his pants he certainly does that I think anybody looking at this video can. See The final clip, from. ABC news on the shooting we're not trying to hide anything we're not trying to fluff. Anything the video speaks for itself, meanwhile the coalition for new Chicago is planning, an act of civil disobedience in a. Business district, to be named the time, also being kept secret so they say no so they can? Try to stop the. Effort and they're calling on the mayor to resign What I hate to see everybody is that it In other incidents like this will occur is that we have another McDonald. Cover. Up because mayor Emanuel wants to win office okay where is there a cover? Up when they have released the body camera footage I don't know if there is. More footage if there is that would be useful Gusta says being described says he was a barber who went by the name snoop. The barber say Gloria range, according to Chicago sun times, she told, the newspaper that she saw the confrontation and, said that it began when an officer told? Augustus that he wasn't allowed to sell loose cigarettes you may remember that was, the same problem, in New. York City, with, Eric garner he was selling loose cigarettes, which she did a lot which is of course, against the law by the way why are they enforce that law so. Carefully because all of our cities now depend a lot on the taxes on tobacco which is, terrible terrible pattern it say look I think it's smart to tax cigarettes highly to try to discourage people. From. Using them but it ends up being a tax on people who can't afford? It and it makes the government very dependent on the tobacco industry in any event She said that Augusta said I'm not selling any cigarettes and then, the situation escalated according to both the body camera and the. Eyewitness footage he Got involved there four officers, who are shown approaching him and it was a female officer who reached for his arm and then he started to. Struggle, against the female officer and then he was running away? With, his gun. Pretty visible and and looked like he was reaching for his gun. Now is it a terrible, thing that the police Sean. Him yeah it is but here's another headline from the Chicago Sun-Times same period of, time Eight people? Were, shot Sunday. Three of them fatally within a twenty four hour period across Chicago The last fatal shooting claimed the. Life of a twenty one year old on the west side Austin neighborhood about eight twenty. Pm two men were standing on the sidewalk in the forty nine hundred block of west Adams, when three males got out of a blanket SUV and opened fire Okay Here's here's the basic..
PBS NewsHour
Migrants disembark in Sicily after EU sharing plan reached
"In, the day's other news a federal judge in San Diego ordered a temporary halt to deporting migrant families that were separated and then reunited the, American Civil Liberties union ask for a delay of, at, least, a week saying quote, mass deportations were imminent ACLU. Officials welcomed. Today's move The judge that. Is that they should continue with. Reunifications even if the parent has a removal order and this way the parent and the. Child will have some time to talk over whether the child should, stay in the country to fight their immigration is still the. Trump administration oppose, the ruling it is under a court order deadline to reunite was in twenty five hundred older children with their. Parents by July twenty sixth migrants are still arriving in Europe by the, hundreds from Africa about four hundred and fifty were allowed to disembark in Sicily today, after six European Union nations agreed to take them in Italy had refused to let the ships dock over the weekend elsewhere Spanish crews rescued, nearly four hundred eighty migrants at sea over the, weekend, nearly, seventeen thousand have made. It to Spain this year One of the European Union leaders appealed to the US to Russia and China. Today to preserve world order by preventing trade wars European Council president Donald, tusk spoke at a summit with Chinese leaders in Beijing Common beauty of Europe and China America and Russia Not to throw this old butts to improve it Not to start. Trade deals about two gravely. And, responsive Louis poem the rules based international order Meanwhile China complained to the World Trade Organization about a US threat of tariffs on another. Two hundred billion dollars worth of imports from China in turn the, US complained, to the WTO about retaliation by China the, EU Canada, and others for earlier tariffs in Syria state news media. And. Activists report is rarely. Airstrikes hit near Aleppo overnight nine people were killed the target appeared to be an airbase used. By Iran's revolutionary guard in support of Syrian forces it would be, the latest in a series of such Isreaeli attacks hundreds of. People protested in Nicaragua's capital today against a government crackdown twelve more people died over the, weekend as police and paramilitaries attack activists at university And roadblocks some three hundred have died. In. The last three months. As the government used force to quash dissent protesters in Chicago are turning out again tonight over. The police killing of a black man on Saturday late Sunday police, released body camera footage that showed Harris Augustus with a holster. Gun at his hip and apparently reaching toward it the chiefs at officers had to react These things happen a split second and officers, have to make decisions quickly. They don't have the luxury of looking at video later. New CD video you know you you take, a look at it and you you. Come to your own conclusion there, is no sound on the body Cam video and activists are calling for police to release other footage of the shooting Saudi Arabia. Today ban dozens of video games that it says lead children to harm themselves they include. Versions of assassin's creed and grand theft auto there have been reports that two young Saudis a boy. And a girl committed suicide after playing a social media game the blue whale challenge is said to. Urge players to perform various tasks and then take their own, lives on Wall Street today energy stocks, sagged after the price of oil tumbled and that weighed on the broader market the Dow Jones industrial average managed to gain forty. Five points to close at twenty five Five thousand sixty four but the NASDAQ fell twenty points and yes and p. five hundred slipped three and, in France hundreds of thousands. Of people celebrated Sunday's victory over Croatia in the World. Cup finals vast throng packed the fame shos, Elysee in Paris to greet the new. World champions of soccer team showed, off the trophy from top a double decker bus still to come on the news hour our politics Monday team gauges the fallout. From President Trump's statements on Russia a new documentary takes us inside the.
Midday on WNYC
Poland, Spain and Portugal discussed on Midday on WNYC
"A house for a while by the police and then escorted back to managua he's he's he said by the conference to be okay now america's edison now more of what's happening in the world with debbie there's been a second day of street protests in chicago over the fatal police shooting of a black man body cam footage has been released by police sharing the confrontation between the victim and officers before he's shot thirty seven year old harris augustus appears to reach for a gun and he's waistband demonstrators believe the incident was racially motivated at a news conference chicago police superintendent eddie johnson encourage people to see the video and decide for themselves it is what it is you know we're not trying to hide anything we're not trying to fluff anything the video speaks for itself i don't need to narrate that video for you when you see it you know you come to y'all conclusions about what happened the authorities in the syrian town of men bridge say the last members of the kurdish y pg militia have left the local arab militia controlling the towns said the white pg had withdrawn military advisers who helped to train local forces the wipe e g is a member of the syrian democratic forces the kurdish arab alliance that defeated the islamic state group in syria turkey considers the way pg to be an extension of the outlawed kurdistan workers party the pk k and has demanded its withdrawal from northern syria italy has allowed four hundred and fifty migrants who have picked up from an overcrowded boat on saturday to disembark in sicily the decision was taken after italy said that france germany mortar portugal and spain had agreed to take fifty migrants each to hungarian tourists have admitted trying to steal bricks from the ruins of a crematorium at the site of the former nazi death camp outfits birkenau in poland they were spotted on saturday stuffing the bricks into a bag the tourists were each fined four hundred dollars and given a one year suspended prison sentence for theft of a cultural asset and london's national gallery is facing legal action from twenty seven expert guides who claimed they've been unfairly dismissed one of them has worked there for more than forty years his david silica the national gallery says this is just a reorganization all of being offered the chance to apply for a new job and says their contract states they were freelances the educators disagree saying they were employees tax through payasyouearn with.
Kim Komando
Police officer, bystander shot, killed in Weymouth; suspect in custody
"Russia's election meddling with putin during that call karen travers abc news traveling with the president in helsinki chicago police released bodycam video showing harith augustus reaching for a holstered gun as he ran away from officers before they shot and killed him killing touched off violent protests last night the video released following clashes with police and protesters this weekend at least four injured in several moral wrestling demonstrators scuffled with officers in jumped on patrol cars on the south siders chicago abc's zachary quiche there have been some protests tonight weymouth massachusetts police officer michael chesney was shot and killed responding to a report of a car driving erratically here arrived at an accident scene defined suspect emmanuel lobes vandalizing a house norfolk county massachusetts assistant district attorney greg connor lopes then attacked off so chasma is believed when a large stone striking him in the head nassir chesnut fell to the ground dan retrieve office suggestions firearm discharged several times in his head and chest chestnut six year veteran was killed lopes ran continuing to shoot one of those bullets killing an elderly woman in her home lopes eventually catch catcher he's hospitalized a wildfire that broke out friday in central california has blackened more than six square miles since then killing a firefighter and spurring the closure of a key route into yosemite national park you're listening to abc news ever wonder why european seemed to speak so many languages maybe it's because they use babble the number one selling language learning app and era babbel's awardwinning technology gets you speaking right away whether you're learning spanish french or german and best of all you'll remember what you've learned i always thought i was bad at languages but after using babble i can tell you i was just taught the wrong way using babbel's ten to fifteen minute lessons you can be speaking confidently in the new language within weeks i was amazed that i could start having real life conversations right away so fast now i'm seeking status no wonder babble is the.