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The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Democrat Party Hates America with Mark Levin and Julie Kelly
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Joining us now is the great one, Mark Levin. Mark, thank you for taking the time. I have to say your book right here, The Democrat Party Hates America, is a noteworthy, remarkable, and impressive accomplishment, Mark. The footnotes alone could be its own book. Mark, congratulations, and please introduce the book to our audience. First of all, thank you, Charlie, for all your support all the time. You're a beacon of liberty out there, my brother. Thank you. Well, I decided to put the title in this book when I finished it. Let's look around today, even before we get into any history background on The Democrat Party Hates America. You look at the border. You look at our value of our currency. You look at what's going on in our classrooms. You look what's going on in our courtrooms. You look what's going on with the price of fuel, and soon to be the elimination of the combustion engine. You look at what's going on in the streets, particularly in our inner cities, where people are being mugged, raped, and brutalized, and murdered with very little consequence. And I can go on and on and on. This is the news that we're faced with almost every day. This is what you, Charlie, and I have to deal with almost every day when we talk about it. This is what the American people see every day. Well, these aren't natural disasters. Somebody's causing all these things to happen. So who's causing all these things to happen? It's man -made. Who are these men? What's the Democrat Party behind every single one of these? And when you go back in history, the Democrat Party has never accepted America and Americanism. It's never accepted the Declaration of Independence. It doesn't even accept it today. Never accepts the Constitution. It is rewriting our history about our founding. It's done this before. So we have a party that was the party of the Confederacy, the party of slavery, the party of segregation, the party of eugenics, the party of the Klan, the party of lynching. And all of a sudden it keeps attacking the American history. That's their history. It's not America's history. It's their history. And then today, of course, they are also attacking America. But like good chameleons, they've shifted the way they do it. So whereas they used to be the party of anti -black racism, now they're the party of anti -white racism. Why? Because they don't like white people. Well, many of these are white people. Because they're Marxists. So in order to attack the race founding of the nation, which was founded largely by white people and Europeans, you need to attack that. So you have the 1690 project, you have critical race theory, you have monuments being pulled down, you have all these things going on. Because the goal now is to destroy the connection of the American people with their history, the destruction of the American culture, and so forth and so on. So you got to look at the Democrat Party through the lens of power, their power. Because the Democrat Party, Charlie, is not a typical political party. It's an autocratic entity that doesn't seek to win elections. It seeks to control elections, control the outcome of elections, to diminish the viability of any opposition parties or any opposition of any kind. And so this book gets very deep into the history, as you know. It's very hard to do an interview or answer an interview on this book because it is so comprehensive. It is comprehensive. It is. Yeah. And I've spent a lot of time, Mark, flipping through it. I want to just isolate one sentence that I think is super powerful. Page 23 of the Democrat Party Hates America. The Democrat Party has evolved into an anti -American political and cultural entity. It's an institutional home for the Marxist ideology in its Americanized forms. Mark, part of the challenge I have with people that have a muscle memory of a past that no longer exists, 1980s, 1990s, it's hard, Mark, for some people I talk to for them to believe that the leading American political party that controls the White House and the United States Senate and all the bureaucracies has contempt for the country they govern. That's why I think your book is so important, Mark. It really challenges limiting beliefs. You do it in a fabulous way. But I want to just isolate. This is a party that has bitterness towards what you and I love. This is no longer a policy debate. We want different things. Mark Levin. 100 percent. I'd always amazes when people say to me, well, can't we get something going here? The bipartisan. I don't know. Should we have done something bipartisan with the Confederacy? Some things are right and some things are wrong. When people are, as they say, they use the phrase fundamentally transforming America. Shouldn't we believe them? When one of the leading Democrat lights in the Democrat Party is a Marxist by the name of Bernie Sanders, shouldn't we understand that? When 10 to 15 percent of the Democrat caucus in the House of Representatives are Marxists, shouldn't we accept that and have to deal with it? So what I've tried to do in this book is rather than deal with the ephemeral or the ambiguous, it's to put a label on it. American Marxism sort of set the stage. But the fact of the matter is we have a political entity, which is more than a party. It's your typical autocratic party that wants to do what? That wants to devour this society. That wants to replace the country. They want allegiance to the party, not to the country. They don't give a damn about the country. Your fuel prices, the open border, elections. They have a fourth branch of government that they've created with some help of Republicans, but it's their government, which issues more regulations and laws than Congress ever could. We don't even have a representative republic anymore. You and I, we're not asking members of Congress to eliminate the incandescent light bulb because apparently it kills people. They're going through our homes. They're eliminating all kinds of appliances. Any government that has the power to eliminate a light bulb has no limits on its power. And so what this party does is every waking hour of its leadership is to try and destroy the status quo, destroy our traditions, destroy our customs, destroy real law and order, particularly in our communities, as they empower and centralize the police state. If people want to really understand... Let me just say this to you, Charlie. There was a great review done by Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker, founder of the American Thinker.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Episode 11 The Drama of Atheist Humanism Fr. Joseph Fessio S.J., Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce FBC Podcast
"Welcome, and welcome back to the Forum Book Club, with Vivian Deutero, myself Father Fesser, and Joseph Pierce continuing to discuss Henri Robach's classic, modern classic, the drama of A .K. Schumann. The last session we actually finished on the end of the chapter. Let's see what we can do this time as we begin chapter three, Positivist Transpositions. The previous chapter was about the alliance that he sought with the Catholic Church as an instrument of promoting the final status of civilization, namely the positivist order. So let's see how the transpositions take place. Joseph? Well, yes, at the top of page 12 and 16, again, I like there's an irony, a role irony, I think, in Henri de Lubac's voice here. He says, then, speaking of Comte, then the new Aristotle, so the philosopher, had changed into a new Saint Paul, so basically a religious zealot, in order to complete the edifice. Quote, I have systematically devoted my life, he says, in the systeme de politicians positif, to making real science ultimately provide the necessary basis for the sound philosophy, according to which I should then build up the true religion. So we have the evolution here. Real science leads to sound philosophy, which leads to true religion. This is where this positivism is going. And I would like to back up, if I may, to the very first page of the chapter, where de Lubac points out that this alliance that Comte wants to create to bring about his true religion was intended to be purely temporary. He thought it expedient because he no longer hoped that the triumph of his own church at any rate among the masses was as near as he had at first predicted. And I would just like to editorialize that every time people outside the church try to co -opt the church for their own purposes, for them, it's a temporary phase. You know, think about concordats with Mussolini or Hitler or any of these attempts to co -opt the church. Ultimately, the end is to destroy the church or replace it with this regime having total power. And so, thankfully, as we pointed out in the last chapter, de Lubac said this temptation will come again and again, but that it won't in the end. The church will, because of the Holy Spirit, will not be prevailed upon. But it's important to know that that temptation is a perennial temptation on the part of people seeking power to use the church and on the part of people inside the church to seek a legitimization on the part of the powers that be that want to use the church for their own ends. Yeah, but again, I do love, and this is such a, we might say, a dry topic, that I do like the Lubac's raw sense of humor. So even the first part of this, the true Catholicism, positivism through Catholicism. On page 219, three lines down, according to Kant, the new Catholicism is modeled on the old. The church had her sacraments. Skipping a couple of lines, positive has his rights to consecrations or social sacraments. And he says there are nine of these sacraments in positivism, including one that is received after death. That's an innovation. Right. Yes, he, so the transposition that's happening here is, you know, for everything that the Catholic Church offers its flock, he's going to transpose that with something of his own invention that resembles it, but is actually emptying it of all of its original meaning. Well, only these got out. Yeah, just these got out. No big deal, right? Including a liturgical calendar with saints, the cults of saints, prayers. All of this is spelled out in the next few pages of all the things he's going to make. It's sort of, as Lubac says, again, perhaps broadly, this process of incorporation after death, which may rather be compared with canonization. And in fact, it is, in fact, I think canonization, it's secular canonization. These people will be immortalized as heroes. It's going right back to paganism, right? You build statues of them all over the place. You put them on the calendar. And so, you know, if you're a good servant of the positivist religion, you will be immortal, not in the sense of going to heaven, but in the sense of being remembered and revered. Yeah, I'm going to jump way ahead to the conclusion of everything here. That's fine. Just one little sentence, 266 at the bottom, where the little box says here, Cohen's spiritual itinerary is that of man himself. Lost faith cannot long remain unreplaced. You know, you leave out God, something, some idol is going to take God's place. That's right. My father going right back 46 pages, you see it on the top of page 220. He's talking about that man becomes, quote, a veritable organ of the great being, capital G and capital B. I mean, what on earth is the great being if we're not allowed to believe in God? Is it Comte? Or if it's not Comte, is it humanity in some sense? Yes, it's humanity. The abstract deity, the great being. Yeah, yeah. That's I think, Chesson referred to that as similar to being on a crowded tram, as you would say, humanity. Amorphous mass all around you. I have something on page 229. Anybody before that? Let's go for it. Like the last part of that paragraph at the top. Apart from all questions of doctrine, this is Judelbach speaking. One cannot take seriously the musings of a man who never understood a word of the gospel and who sank deeper every day into the monstrous egocentricity. The crude and lacrimose consolations to which Comte innocently abandoned himself in his sanctuary cannot be taken for genuine spirituality. Telling it out how it is, basically, that's somewhere at the end. This is a madman, egocentric, narcissistic madman. And here's the Judelbach exercising that discernment that he says needs to be when we're dealing with these intellectual systems or ideologies, there's an intellectual discernment you have to go through and think about it. But then there's the spiritual discernment, right? That's what he said in the previous part of this book with respect to you. If we can go back perhaps to 224, just a footnote there, because this, I think, is very interesting and it has this wonderful phrase moral eunuch. This is somebody writing about Comte in a pejorative way, in a negative way, I should say. Comte is a man whom the exclusive culture of scientific ideas has reduced to a true degradation. He is a moral eunuch, all feeling, all poetry, which is to say, all manifestation of feeling is something he has completely disregarded or rather that is completely unknown to him. And now this whole different moral eunuch, not only is it a good phrase, a powerful poetic phrase, but it's really, I think, also a description of many of the worst psychopaths, right? Is that they actually have no moral compass. They have no moral feeling, no moral emotion. They can do hideous, horrible things dispassionately because they're morally impotent. Yeah, it's a strange thing. We all have a moral sense and we can't be human without it. And yet it seems to be a submersion of something. I remember years ago, I heard a confession of a young woman who is from a good family and actually lived a pretty good life. But this priest kind of seduced her. And so she was spending time in his factory bedroom and she confessed it. But it wasn't like it was something really serious. She didn't feel any moral seriousness about that, even though she did come to confession. But it just seemed like, for whatever reason, there was a colorblindness almost, you know? She could see some things, but couldn't see others. So it happened. A desensitization, which is, of course, dangerous, right? When you suddenly become so habitual, you no longer see it as being anything unusual and therefore nothing too much of an aberration, right? If you do it all the time, we excuse ourselves for it. I want to jump back to 229, unless there's something in between. The second section is called The Priesthood of the Scientist, which is a good description here. So far, only the most general of the transpositions in Catholicism has been considered. But there are two others that complete it, although he divides it into three here. A form of worship, a dogma, and a regime. In other words, it has poetry, it's philosophy, and it's politics. Those are the three transpositions I'm going to talk about. Here's one on page 232. You mentioned the thing I brought up before about the specialization of science. The new paragraph there. For what type of scientist would be worthy to belong to such a priesthood? Well, keep going. Comp never cared for empty learning. See, this is this dismissal of the theoretical pursuit of knowledge just for its own sake, which is what the pure sciences are. He has no time for that because that's just empty learning. And another quote from him, cloudy erudition that contents itself with mechanically accumulating facts and which is equally fitted to serve the most contradictory opinions. Well, that is right. When people are, you know, you might have run into somewhat the different theory from your own. Anyway, he just can't abide that. The irony is that, as I understood it from our early discussions of Comp's philosophy and positivism, was it was building a philosophy which denied the existence of metaphysics. In other words, the empiricism and scientific materialism were the only building blocks upon which any truth could be built. And yet he seems to outgrow that and sort of like a Saturn five rocket jettisons, the very thing that got him into orbit. And so the next sentence there, the true positive spirit, as he conceives it, is at bottom just as far removed from empiricism as from mysticism. So he seems to have no real connection with the very, very ladder by which he's climbed. And that's a brilliant expression of the fact that he rejects what he sees as wrong in empiricism, being too specialized. And he rejects mysticism, which is a transcendent, basically. And in the middle is what? Something's going to take the place of the mysticism, which is humanity, and him he as as the pontiff of them all. At the bottom, a couple more lines down, he blames, quote, the exaggerated intellectual narrowness that comes from an empirical specialization. And that is true. But what he says on page 233, about 10 lines down, the aim in view should be systematic generality. Analysis should be subordinated to synthesis as progress is to order in egoism to altruism. At bottom, the whole thing should be one single science, namely human, or rather social science. Social science. There it is. There it is. That's how we have departments of social science on every university campus. That's where it came from. But look how scary that is, that basically all analysis, in other words, all reason, is subject to synthesis, which is, again, it's the inversion, perversion and reversion of the whole Hegelian thing, right? Where you're using reason, you have a thesis, then you have an antithesis, and then you come to a synthesis. Well, now you get to a synthesis. This is the final synthesis. We will have no more theses and antitheses. This is this synthesis and all future reasoning, all future analysis is subject to this final synthesis to which we've arrived, right? That's absolute ideological tyranny and totalitarianism of the 20th century encapsulated. That's right. But ironically, on 233, he wants the scientist to be, this is the top of the second paragraph, to be a man with an encyclopedic mind. Well, I thought you just said you didn't want all these, you know, this detail, this clutter, you know, with, no, I guess he's going to handpick the details that are important. Yeah, the encyclopedia would be the positivist cataclysm. That's the encyclopedia, and you can't read anything other than that. But again, you know, facts themselves, you know, mathematical quantities, these have to, we have to exercise our faculty of judgment to decide of all of this litter of facts, what's really important and what's the hierarchy of value that they have and what is all of this knowledge to be in the service of in the first place, but to God. So you take that out. Now you're just going to have an arbitrary selection of facts. Okay, what does this sound like? It's going to be settled science. We're going to arbitrarily pick the facts that fit our program. Anyone who makes any questions or complaints about it is antisocial, by definition, going to be canceled, right? Like what you just said, Joseph, this is exactly the totalitarian ideological mindset that we're up against, even now. Which is putting the template in place, which will lead to the murder of millions of people or several decades later. We'll return to the Forum Book Club with Fr. Joseph Fessio, Vivian Dudrow, and Joseph Pierce in just a moment. Thank you. Did you also know that you can listen to Discerning Hearts programming wherever you download your favorite podcast, like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, iHeartRadio, Spotify, even on Audible, as well as numerous other worldwide podcast streaming platforms. And did you know that Discerning Hearts also has a YouTube channel? Be sure to check out all these different places where you can find Discerning Hearts Catholic podcasts, dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. 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Your feedback fuels our mission to help others climb higher and go deeper in their spiritual growth. Like, review, and let your voice be a beacon of light for fellow seekers on this spiritual journey. We now return to The Formed Book Club with Father Joseph Fezzio, Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pierce. Well, on page 234 in the middle, this is what I mentioned before. He talks about the heredity and its characteristic of science only in its academic degeneration, when dispersive particularity hampers ascetic culture and the moral urge. Genuine science, on the other hand, establishes a double synthesis, first between the various branches of intellectual research and then between poetry and philosophy. But it's true that genuine philosophy would seek to find the hierarchy of sciences and show where aesthetics require human anthropology and therefore where poetry fits in. That's what true philosophy would do. But he subsides for true philosophy a kind of mechanistic social synthesis of all these dispersed facts, with no principle except his own ego. Right. And so this is the reason why we call totalitarianism that expression because of the word total. So these men who presume to be able to see the whole, right? And now they're going to impose their view of the whole on everybody else. But it can't help but be reductionist because no human being on Earth can see the whole. That's why our knowledge is in fragments. Yeah, who wouldn't like to see the whole thing? Well, when we get to heaven, even then, we won't be able to... You know, God is so beyond us, we're going to spend eternity reaching the whole, I guess. I don't know. It's why we should not trust politically or philosophically anybody who doesn't trust mystery, right? If someone hates mystery and we have to get beyond all mystery to some totality, which is encapsulated in the human mind, that person is leading himself and others to destruction. Because it can't help but be reductionist. It can't help but be reductionist. So what does that do? Oh, the man doesn't fit in this bed? Then we have to chop off his head and chop off his feet and make him fit. And it's true what Joseph said that, you know, this leaves out the transcendent in God. It also leaves out the cross. So the two main pillars of Christianity, Trinitarian God, incarnation and redemption to the cross are still rejected by him. He wants to have a utopia where there's no cross and no God, just us. Oh, by the way, and I'm in charge. That's right. And his priesthood is on 235 to spell this out even more. This priesthood in the middle of that graph on 235, in all things, this is the total, right? In all things that will decide what should be thought. Man's understanding will be subjected to it. In the positive regime, in fact, there can be no more question of free thought or of freedom of conscience. Just look at these attempts at lawmaking going on in our own country, taking away from doctors the freedom of conscience not to perform or to perform certain procedures or certain medicines or whatever. I mean, there is an all -out attack on freedom of conscience in medicine in this country going on right now. And this is a little box thesis for this whole book, the drama of atheist humanism, namely if you leave out God, you destroy man. That's right. Because the very thing that's being done here is everything which is really human, freedom of thought, freedom of choice, freedom of conscience is being subjected to some abstraction. The look -back kind of sums this up on page 237, sums up this section actually at the bottom there. Furthermore, there's nothing now to fear from complete subordination of the reason to faith because according to Kant, it's a kind of faith, but you can actually prove it if you had to, but most of them aren't capable, so they have to submit themselves. It is tantamount to that of the mind to the heart. That is to say, it subordinates personal to social instincts or more briefly, man to humanity with a capital H, and then the look -back asks the question, can humanity be a tyrant? And that the next chapter is spiritual. That's when you say, where does this lead when you suppress man's freedom of conscience? Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, that question, can humanity be a tyrant, should be an essay prompt, really, because an abstract concept itself can't be a tyrant, but those who subject themselves to the abstract concept can become and do become tyrants. That's the way I would ask it, if someone sent me an essay prompt anyway. Yes, well, and humanity can't be a tyrant because abstractions can't do anything. Right. If you claim to be the sole reliable exponent of humanity, well, then, of course, you will be a tyrant. And you can certainly, yeah, humanity is the totality. Of course, you can sacrifice people on the order of humanity, right? And on 241, de Lubac points out that it all, the purge was beginning, de Lubac says, meaning Comte was already threatening to, quote -unquote, unmask his false adherents, you know, already the purge was beginning. So this wasn't even something that was going to be saved for later. Comte was already beginning in his own circles to weed out, you know, weed out the unbelievers or the people who aren't the true believers anyway. Yeah, on 239, about six lines down, he's quoted some of this. The social order will always be incompatible with permanent freedom to reopen at will, an indefinite discussion of the rare foundation of society. So that systematic tolerance cannot exist, and it's never really existed except in connection with opinions regarded as indifferent or doubtful. So in the bottom of the page, in short, positive faith is not open to abuses because it is always demonstrable, but people cannot demand that it should be demonstrated here and now. So we've come to the truth. We're brilliant ones. Yeah, take our word for it, or you'll be shocked. Again, this quote, I'm backtracking again to 238, the beginning of this section, that block quote there, an indented quote by Mr Jean Lacroix. Competent men are so far ahead of the masses that all sorts of political and social catastrophes have tried to happen before the latter have reached a positive stage. Besides, the community as a whole must always lag behind the elite. And here we have something which is sociological and in some sense sort of socialist and certainly secular humanist, which is also elitist. And again, that also is very much what we have now, right, where basically the socialists used to be, and I think authentically, certainly in British history, was the working class. The Labour Party was a political organisation begun by the working class in order to give the working class, to enfranchise the working class politically. But now we see the elites have completely and utterly hijacked the machine and treat the masses with complete contempt. So a word like populism has become a swear word. You know, heaven forbid that a member of the elite should be popular. You know, that people might actually like him or he might be speaking for them. So this is just really systematic elitism as now the voice of the people. Right. And yes, so we must listen to the experts and suppress any opinions that are different from those of the self -appointed experts. That's right. And these experts, we see it now, cannot tell that what's in a woman's womb is a human being or can't tell what sex a person is or whether there are only two sexes. They're the experts. If you can't figure those things out, I don't want to hear your opinions on taxation or foreign policy. Well, with the famous line by William F. Buckley, he'd rather be ruled by the first 20 people randomly chosen out of the phone book than by the faculty of Harvard.
Mark Levin
The Democrat Party's Obsession With 'Inclusive Language Guides'
"With alcohol use disorder. The NIH style guide meanwhile advises people to say gender affirmation or gender confirmation rather than sex change. They should similarly avoid the term hermit aphrodite and should never misgender someone I'm quoting them which is using a word or address that does not correctly reflect the gender identity of the transgender or gender diverse person. Of course when it comes to conservatives I point out Republicans and Trump supporters let the hate speech fly nothing's off limits but the Biden administration has developed guidelines. I'm just showing you how what's taking place here under the Democrat Party. The Biden administration has developed guidelines and directives to be implemented government -wide that officially change words and language throughout the democracy. Quote, the agency's terms and pronoun lists stem from an executive order Biden signed on his first day in office. They called for a comprehensive approach to advance equity for all throughout the federal government. Each agency, writes the Beacon, must assess whether and to what extent its programs and policies perpetuates systemic barriers to opportunities and benefits for people of color and other underserved groups. According to Executive Order 13985. Biden followed up with another executive order further advancing racial equity, which calls for a whole of government approach to embed equity in all aspects of federal decision making. In other words, embed Marxism. Even in the FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration tasked with focusing on traffic safety. They must comply, quote, the language we use in
The Hair Radio Show with Kerry Hines
Remembering Black Hair Care Pioneer Dr. Willie Morrow With Mary Reed-Johnson
"Am so excited to welcome back to the broadcast today. Our special incredible guest host, guest contributor. You guys know her from Hairhead Heart. Well, I am so excited to just to have her back to talk on this very particular topic that she does. It's really like a series that she does exclusively for us at the Hair Radio Morning Show. It's her 10 things you should know. So who gets the treatment today? It is a gentleman that we just recently lost. Of course, we're talking about the mega, mega superstar in the way of black hair care, Dr. Willie Morrow. So Mary Rhee Johnson, good morning and welcome back to the Hair Radio Morning Show. Absolutely glad to be here. It's always just exciting. I just appreciate you. Well, back at you. And we're going to find out all about what's new with you and Hairhead Heart coming up a bit later. So first, Mary, we just got to jump in. What on earth? Now, listen, I thought I knew just about everything about Dr. Willie Morrow. And just to tell you quickly, yeah, I had interviewed him like literally decades ago. We're talking over about, well, here's my age going out there, but about 20 something years ago, literally. And his daughter and I have been friends ever since. Cheryl Morrow has been an incredible beacon in my little life. And the fans, you guys have gotten to know her. She's been on the Hair Radio Morning Show many, many, many times. And that's her family and what they represent and what she represents. And she's carried the torch. I call her literally Hair Royalty. You'll always hear that. That's how I refer to her. Because to me, Dr. Morrow's the hair king. So I'm real excited. So I can't wait to hear what Mary Rhee Johnson has put together for us today. So Mary Rhee Johnson, take it away. All right. Well, number one, legends never die. So even though he's not physically here with us. We're starting at number 10, right, Mary? Yes. We're going to count meow. Yes. So this is number 10. Yes. In recognition of that, I'm going to say everybody's got to lay hands on CBS Sunday morning. There was just a small tribute to him. And I think that's him probably. Look at the July 17th, if you can find it. CBS Sunday morning. And you'll see a little bit about. Yeah. You can YouTube the guys out there. So yeah. Yeah. So I think that's always good. So that would be my number 10. But he had a lot of layers. So we're going to chop into some of those layers that Willie represented. And one of them ties into what you mentioned already about his daughter, Cheryl. So one of the things Willie had was a newspaper. And it was called the San Diego Monitor. And he actually ran it for many years. And then his daughter, Cheryl, took it over. So I think that's another interesting fact about Willie. Absolutely. In fact, the San Diego Monitor news that Cheryl does, she has taken over that, which has been incredible. And it's a great digital brand. I usually get the digital version online and read. Cheryl herself always has a unique way of looking at things. And she's been able to do some incredible things with this. And I kind of always think of her as kind of almost like the same as the story with Matt King Cole, and then you got Natalie and her success. That's what Cheryl has always put me in the mind for, lack of a better, different way to say it. But that's what she's always put me in the mind of, just someone who carries the beacon on from a very successful dad. So this is the type of thing. And you don't have to always come from royalty. I'll say fact number eight would be that he came from, now he had two children, but he came from a fairly large family by these standards. He was one of eight children. Yes. And yes, I did that. From, was he born out in California? Oh, no. He was from Alabama. Oh, okay. Yep. And his mother and father, excuse me, I'm going to say that they would be the next one, number seven, they were sharecroppers. And you know what a sharecropper is? Well, I definitely remember, wasn't the sharecropper the folks who, after slavery ended, maintained the land for people to have firearms and stuff like that? But tell us, yeah, tell us what your research revealed. Well, that is exactly, so his parents, like he created a legacy in royalty, but he didn't come from that is what I'm saying. But it doesn't matter. It's like if you are of sound mind and have intent to do better for the world around you, then you can. Like he didn't let anything stop him. Wow. Well, I'm just, yeah, I'm impressed with that. I really am. And to, you know, I have to say to hear so many incredible folks in the hair and beauty industry talk so lovingly of Dr. Morrow's commitment to the hair and beauty industry, and what he has done for so many, I'm raising my hand as well. He's always been someone that I have modeled my career and life after as well. And everybody I know, we all look up to Dr. Morrow, everybody I know in the hair business. So this has been, yeah, it's really big. Thank you, Mary, for doing this. This helps us to put his life into perspective. And we wanted to do that as a very special tribute on our broadcast.
Lets Be Frank Podcast - Men's Mental Health
A highlight from Bailey Greetham-Clark: BeGreatFitness & Pandemic Resilience
"Welcome to Let's Be Frank, the men's mental health podcast. Join us as we break the stigma, embrace vulnerability and prioritise mental health in men. Together, let's use your voice. Guys, welcome back to Let's Be Frank, the home of men's mental health. I'm your host Jack Coward, and alongside me, as always, Mr Ryan Smith. Today, we have an extraordinary guest who truly embodies the spirit of resilience and empowerment. Joining us is Bailey, a true beacon of inspiration and change. Bailey took on an incredible challenge at the age of just 17, right in the midst of a global pandemic. Fuelled by a remarkable vision, he founded Be Great Fitness, an initiative aimed at bridging the gap between fitness and vulnerability. During humbling his experiences, he has had fights of his own demons that we will be jumping into tonight, so stay tuned. But as always, Mr Ryan Smith, how are you tonight, mate? Do you know what? I'm not actually too bad, apart from a little technical error. My internet is, well, I think it's more brick that I've got as a laptop. We're all good, honestly. No, this chap tonight, I tell you what, he's got a couple of impressive sort of things that's been going on in the past. We've touched a bit briefly on it just before we come on, but for me, I've just got to commend the man for it. One is money, and two is tash. I just love him. I just love him. And that's probably because I can't actually grow a tash or a beard or anything. He's more jealous, that's why I rip everyone. You slate me for my ginger beard, mate, all the time, and now we've got a chap on who is, and you know what, I've, I've known this guy for a while now, and I would never say it to his face after this podcast, I will never say it again. But he is genuinely one of the nicest blokes I've met. And you know me as a person, Ryan, you know what he does actually see me. Yeah, he does. You know me that the fact that I don't, I don't, I'm not one that's very open. I'm not one that chats all the time. I'm not one that if you see me in public, I'm kind of like approachable. But Bailey's got this aura about him. That is so genuine, so authentic. He has the real passion in just the way he says hello to you is honestly a real top guy. And again, I'm not gonna say this outside of the podcast or during the coffee, so no one will ever know. But Bailey, welcome to the show, mate. How are you buddy? Thank you so much. I'm really good. It's, do you know what, that's probably one of the best introductions I've had for an interview or a show. That was that was kind I'm gonna I need to get that recorded and keep it because I feel like I'll never hear that again. I like that. Thank you. Which bit which bit is it? But the ribbon? I just feel like I can pull them all in the tash off and I'm a nice guy called the jack which is great. So no, I'll take I'll print the intro off man. I'll sign it for you and I'll send it to the post. There you go, mate. Frame it.
Northwest Newsradio
"beacon" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood Seattle police say transit riders alerted them about 8 a .m. near Beacon Avenue and South Bayview the death toll continues to balloon in Morocco as more of that country is searched for victims from last weekend's earthquake we have ABC's Tom Sufi Burrage on the story rescue teams racing to reach the most remote areas Morocco's high Atlas Mountains devastated by that earthquake with the death toll 2 ,800 people now confirmed killed thousands more injured rescuers using their hands desperately digging through flattened buildings sniffer dogs by their talents listening for any sign of life we saw one woman collapsing in grief and later went to meet her Habiba showing us a selfie she took with her seven old -year -old son one of eight members of her family who were killed my mother and my father my brother my son and the son for my brother and the two wife, her brother helicopters finally dropping aid in some of the hardest to reach areas American NGOs in Morocco ready to help the reality on the ground is you and your family do not have a home or if you still have a home can you stay in your home are you scared to be in your home so you outside well USAID and those American NGOs are still waiting for a green light from the Moroccan government before they can deploy into these mountains to help but coordinating all of that relief in these remote areas is a real challenge from the earthquake to flooding and the European Union coming to the aid of flood hit Greece with money more from ABC's Tom Rivers at the foreign desk European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says 2 .4 billion has been allocated to help a lot of investment will be necessary to rebuild but right now also a lot of immediate support and help is necessary to restore the livelihoods my main message is that the Commission will be inventive we will be quick the flood last week left thousands of households without power and drinking water for days at least 15 people died Tom Rivers ABC News at the foreign desk five Americans could soon be headed home now that the administration has cut a deal with Iran ABC's chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce the Biden administration holding up its half of a deal with Iran clearing the way for South Korea to pay Iran six billion dollars in oil revenues that have been held up by US sanctions critics say any money Iran to is dangerous but Biden administration officials say the funds can only be used for humanitarian purposes under tight US monitoring three of the Americans have been held on espionage charges that that they and the US say are false executive Samak Namazi held for nearly eight years conservationist Murad Tabas and businessman Ahmad Sargi both arrested in 2018 the other two Americans wish to remain anonymous all five have been under house arrest in Tehran since last month as the US and Iran finalized this agreement their families pleading for their freedom these are innocent Americans that were taken solely because they're American and what I do know that are wrong to bring home an American and now that these funds have been released we are told that these five Americans could finally be coming home as soon as next week and North Korean leader Kim Jong -un is in eastern Russia now he's expected to hold a summit in a few days with President Vlad Vladimir Putin the rare meeting takes place amid growing concerns over possible arms deal between Russia and North Korea Kim Jong -un and his entourage arrived in Russia Tuesday morning on his train that set off Pyongyang last Sunday this is Kim's first visit to Russia in nearly four and a half years and Kim's first trip abroad since the COVID -19 outbreak has Pyongyang been seeking to bolster military ties with Moscow as the security cooperation grows stronger among the U .S., Japan and South Korea. Ha Kyung Kate Lee, ABC News, Seoul. It's 2 -20. Check on Wall Street with our stockcharts .com money update. Here's Jim Chesko. Stocks eased today as traders turn their attention to tomorrow morning's reading on August consumer inflation. The Dow Industrial slipped 17 points, the S &P 500 shed 25 and the Nasdaq composite dropped 144 or 0 .5%. Ahead of that Wednesday report on consumer prices, Walmart's boss today put out an upbeat message for investors telling attendees at a Goldman Sachs conference that American consumers are holding up better expected than heading into the crucial holiday season. Doug McMillan said the retail giant is feeling pretty good about state the of the consumer despite lingering macroeconomic challenges. That's your money now. Catch money news here at 20 and past 50 every hour hang on traffic struggles and a check on the weather next. There's a new way to stay connected and stay informed news radio crystal clear on your HD radio go to 101 .5 FM HD to check back often and never miss a thing your station station. Which do you think cost more an asphalt roof or a metal roof? Jim Terry from roof smart here and I'll bet you think a metal roof costs more well you're right kind sort of. While metal roofing does cost more upfront it actually costs you less than an asphalt roofing over time. Seattle weather is brutal
Crypto Banter
A highlight from Why Bitcoin Is Gearing Up For Its Biggest Ever Bull Run (Pay Attention)
"The next Bitcoin bull run could be bigger than any other, due to these 10 crypto catalysts, which are currently shaking up the crypto market. And in today's video, I wanna go through each one of these catalysts and explain to you why crypto is uniquely positioned for massive growth in the near future. So look, clearly the market right now is boring. A lot of market participants are feeling apathetic due to the market. This is in part due to the fact that volume is super low. So there's just simply not that much to trade in the way of Bitcoin, Ethereum or majors. And also that the volatility of the market is down. And when volatility is down, there's obviously less opportunities for trading. But on the investing standpoint, things couldn't be any more different because periods of low volatility and quiet market movement are actually an accumulator's dream because we all know what happens in terms of volatility. Extended periods of contraction tend to lead to explosive periods of expansion and I think we can assert that the more that Bitcoin trades in this sideways, boring range, the more that price action remains boring, the bigger the eventual move is going to be. And although yes, this can be to the downside, long -term volatility compression combined with strong macro catalysts and the upcoming catalysts that we have like the Bitcoin halving could very well lead to upwards expansion. And that's what we're gonna talk about in today's video, the reasons for that expansion and go back to the fundamentals because it's so easy to get swept up with the price of Bitcoin. Oh, you know, Grayscale had an amazing announcement but Bitcoin didn't react. You know, that must mean it's not bullish for Bitcoin. Wrong. Stop associating progress with price because you'll become a much better investor and you'll also be able to actually take advantage of the opportunities that are being presented via the fundamental shifts in Bitcoin's underlying strengths. So let's get straight into it. Just quickly, rapid fire. I'm gonna give away $200 to five people for the SmartX giveaway. So I'm gonna pick five people now randomly and make their names bold. If I choose to make your name bold, you have just won $200. There you go. There you go. I'm gonna look away to make it fair. Four and five. There we go. Number 12, number 14, 17, 23, 30. If your wallet address is highlighted in bold, you are one of the five lucky winners that won $200 thanks to the SmartX giveaway. If you aren't entered into the giveaway, we're gonna run this $200 airdrop for another week. So get involved for next week. All you've got to do is deposit a minimum of $50 worth of liquidity into any of the pools across Arbitrum, Polygon, BNB, or Base. You can also earn some pretty high APRs. Choose which asset you would like to deposit to earn passive income. And also if you enter your wallet address into the link in the description, qualify for the 200 airdrop giveaway. Congratulations if your wallet is there. Let me know in the comments. And obviously we will send you the money over the next 48 hours straight to your wallets. $200 coming your way. Let's get on with the rest of the video. So let's go through these catalysts. Let's go rapid fire. Let's talk about them, talk about the ramifications. And then at the end, I have a take for what all of this means. The first thing that happened recently was Grayscale winning their lawsuit against the SEC. I think this was a very monumental occasion for crypto and not just because we had a company beating the SEC, but because the courts finally acknowledged that the SEC's actions were overzealous. They actually worded the SEC's pursuit of Grayscale as arbitrary and capricious. And I mean, what a strong word, what a strong stance for the court to come out and call the SEC capricious. They essentially debunked the main argument of the SEC's case against Grayscale, which was that Bitcoin due to market manipulation is not an asset conducive to a spot ETF listing. But the courts essentially debunked that entire argument, which was the premise of the SEC's entire case against not only Grayscale, but against other ETF applicants as well. So the precedent it set clearly means the Bitcoin spot ETF has a much higher percentage of getting approved. And I mean straight after this Grayscale victory versus the SEC was announced to the public, we saw the probability of a Bitcoin spot ETF according to Bloomberg analysts increase by 15 % from 60 % to 75%. So it did have a tangible effect on the market. And yes, price did get faded because we're in kind of bearish market conditions, boring market conditions, but it can't be understated enough how bullish this actually is for crypto long -term and how it definitely lends into the favor of the upcoming 10 Bitcoin spot ETFs, which are currently pending approval. We know that the arc deadline is in January and then we know that BlackRock and some of these other big filings, for example, WisdomTree, VanEck and Bitwise are towards the month of March. But in my opinion, if we get one approval, that sets the example that all the others should technically get approved because I doubt the SEC will want to just approve one and then not approve the others. It kind of looks like they're picking favorites, especially if they pick BlackRock over the others. So I think once one is approved, it'll open the flood gates to all the others. And that could happen not just as soon as January, which is the first final deadline, but potentially as soon as the second or the third deadline. Because what you have to realize is, especially in the context of the recent grayscale loss from the SEC's perspective, they're under a lot of pressure at the moment. They're getting clowned in the courts. They're basically losing every case. They lost to XRP. They're having to settle with a lot of other like NFT projects and small projects. Basically, their endeavors aren't working in the court of law because the court system is doing what it's supposed to do, remain objective. And the SEC is doing what it's not supposed to do. And that's being unobjective. And for that reason, they're kind of being backed into a corner right now. And I think the only outcome for this is they're gonna have to buckle and approve a Bitcoin spot ETF. And that's why the probability from analysts is so high now, pushing into the 80 to 90 % range from recent estimates. So we could even see a Bitcoin spot ETF as soon as let's say November or December this year on the best terms, on the worst terms, maybe it's January, February, but we do know it's gonna be within the next four to six months. So if you are bullish on a Bitcoin spot ETF and you believe that it's gonna happen, then you don't need to play like the whole news game. All you need to do is simply accumulate in the lead up to that event. If your strategy is to accumulate Bitcoin long -term and if you believe that the spot Bitcoin ETF is gonna be bullish for the inflows to the market. And look, I do believe that the Bitcoin spot ETF is going to be a substantial cause of new inflows into the market. It's gonna be the first time that institutions are gonna be able to buy Bitcoin and buy it through the proxy of the equities market. The elderly people and retail investors that maybe aren't so well -versed in the crypto exchange sphere, they're also gonna be able to easily buy Bitcoin through the spot ETF. So I think it can't be understated how much of a bullish catalyst this is for crypto, how much of it is priced into the market, that's anyone's guess, but I do think long -term the structural net inflows into the market will be a massive plus for Bitcoin and a massive plus for cryptocurrency, especially if we see like Ethereum filings, for example. And for that reason, I'm extremely bullish on a spot ETF. It's really now just a timeline game. And I think that's the reason why the price hasn't moved because the market doesn't quite know when it's gonna happen. And when the market doesn't know when you see all these games and you see the chop continue into that official announcement. But that can create opportunities, especially on major dips if you believe in that final event. The other thing we saw, because the SEC isn't really being too crypto -friendly, is a lot of other companies throughout 2023 so far, a lot of other countries, sorry, start to accept crypto and start to be more open towards crypto. I think the one that probably stands out the most is Hong Kong, purely just due to China's stance, the Chinese mainland stance towards crypto being so negative in recent times. It was great to see another major Asian nation, especially the one that's so close to China from a political perspective to align with crypto and start accepting it. I think it was a monumental step for the crypto industry as a whole. And not only have we seen positive developments from like Abu Dhabi, UAE, Singapore, Japan, we've also seen great developments from Hong Kong where they officially opened their first crypto trading exchange, where they offered a variety of trading pairs. And I think that's only going to expand in the future. And this does put more pressure on the US because if the US is going to scrutinize crypto and shut down the industry, these players are simply just going to shift offshore to companies that are more accommodating. And I think that's the great part about crypto. It's international, it's borderless. That's the number one benefit of the crypto industry. It enables borderless transactions. It enables the entire world to be linked through a financial ecosystem. And that ecosystem isn't just the USA. So a lot of the time, we get very, very focused on the US and look for good reason because it's such a large percentage of the market. But we have to remember that this is bigger than the USA. This is a worldwide network that can penetrate every border, that can penetrate every country, irrespective of the US trying to claim jurisdiction over crypto. So this is also a positive development, the Hong Kong news. Now, off the back of the Bitcoin spot ETF, we also saw the ETH ETF filings start to happen. We know that ETH futures ETFs have been applied for over the last four to six months, but now we are starting to see concrete spot ETF filings from the likes of ARK Invest and 21 shares alongside Van Eck. So we are seeing the participants starting to pile up for each spot ETF filings. And I only expect over the next few weeks and over the next few months, more institutions start to pile in and file for applications of their own. And this is also extremely bullish for ETH as an asset because if the SEC sets the precedent of Bitcoin being a commodity and Bitcoin being worthy of a spot ETF, who's to say that Ethereum, which has been labeled by a commodity by the CFTC also isn't worthy for a spot ETF. And then that also would pave the way for a bunch of other cryptos to get ETFs as well. So this was a huge development for Ethereum. And once again, price didn't react to the best because of the reasons that I discussed before, the market's boring, the market's probably bearish leaning and it doesn't really wanna react to good news. And there's a few decent reasons for that, but long -term structurally once again, a spot ETF would have huge positive ramifications for the market. And I do believe that we could see more institutions, big institutions start to pile in as well. Remember what happened with the Bitcoin spot ETF. We first saw ARK apply, we first saw the smaller institutions apply and then BlackRock took that momentum and filed for a spot ETF of their own. Could we see a similar thing on ETH? Well, we see ARK, we see 21 shares, we see VanEck apply, we see the smaller institutions apply and then BlackRock comes along a little bit later and they apply as well. I mean, I don't necessarily subscribe to the theory that, oh, just cause ARK filed, it means that BlackRock's gonna file tomorrow. No, I think BlackRock may choose to wait here for a Bitcoin spot ETF approval and it may choose to wait for other institutions to come in and kind of get an SEC green light before it applies. Cause once again, it doesn't wanna ruin its exemplary record when it comes to ETF approvals. But I think the likelihood that BlackRock jumps into ETH eventually is now certainly much higher that it's starting to gain momentum as a trend. So it's something to look out for in the market and obviously it's great for ETH long -term. But yeah, the price once again, didn't react, just like the gray scale announcement got almost instantly faded. We saw the ETH spot ETF result in a huge price pump for Ethereum and then this rally also got faded. The market is the expert of fading pumps at the moment. But the whole point of this video is to teach you to actually detract the price movement from the long -term fundamental catalyst that we see in the market develop over the course of a bear market. In a bull market, good news causes massive price pumps. In a bear market, good news causes, well, price to go sideways or price to even drop. That is a sign of typical bear market conditions. That is a sign of typical market weakness. And even in the early stages of a bull run, if you do wanna say, look, we're heading into the Bitcoin halving, this is an early stage of a new bull run. It's not unusual to see massive, you know, 30, 20, 30, 40 % drawdowns during the early stages and also market shakiness in terms of its reaction to news. So this isn't like a bearish shine. It's not totally indicative of what's happening next just because, you know, it isn't reacting as well as we would like to these announcements. It just shows that in the short term, the market isn't ready yet to get super bullish. So definitely long -term, we are really setting up here with some amazing catalysts and I'm gonna talk about in a minute or two, probably the biggest change that I've seen over the last few days actually that could really affect prices. But we have to remember that every single positive bit of news we get now, every single positive development or announcement we get now is building behind the scenes for what could be an even bigger bull run next time around. And I'm not saying bigger bull run in terms of necessarily percentage growth because we know Bitcoin has diminishing returns, but in terms of sheer dollars in flowing into the cryptocurrency market, I think it's hard to deny at some point that we do see that. And technically that would make it the biggest bull run ever. So that's an amazing thing. So before I get into what could be the biggest change over the last three days, but not many people I've seen talk about it, I just wanna give you a reminder that if you are interested in investing more in this industry and not just in coins, but in unicorns and actual startups and proper companies in this space because you believe in this space and you wanna invest in the picks and shovels behind the space, we have partnered with a company called Link2, which is giving you access to investments that you wouldn't normally be able to access. So typically you would need to spend like over $100 ,000, sometimes $500 ,000 to be qualified as a wholesale investor to access crypto startups and AI startups and tech startups. Now, what you can do is actually invest in them at retail levels. So let's say $5 ,000 minimum investment instead of 100 ,000 and get the same exposure to the big companies that retail is usually priced out of. So just going through their portfolio here, we can see they have a wide array of crypto businesses like Circle, Ripple, Uphold, Itrust, Polisign, Chain Analysis, Copper, Ledger, companies that don't have tokens. But if you believe in the underlying businesses, you can get exposure to them. And if you actually go onto their website and go into link2 .com slash products, you can see all of the products that they've added to their ecosystem. So it's not just crypto products, there's AI products, there's automatic drone products, cybersecurity products, digital assets, fintech, a whole bunch of different sectors that you can explore and invest in if you choose to do so. So if you wanna get involved, there's a link in the description. Once again, I'm not chilling anything, like this is really just a platform that you can just check out, have a look at, see if you like any of the companies. And if you do like some of the companies, you can create an account on the mobile app, as you can see in front of you. And you can start investing today into tech companies and get access to the same investments that the big wholesale traders have been for decades, but retail previously didn't have access to. So I think it's awesome. They're also SEC compliant, so it's not some scam. It's a proper registered fund, you need a KYC. It's a fully regulated operation for, yeah, people that wanna invest more into the industry or into the tech world as a whole. If you're an active investor into tech, I know I personally started my investing journey, not actually through crypto, but through like Apple stock and tech stocks. That's how I originally built up some capital to invest in crypto because yeah, I was more trading equities in the early days. So I'm always a preacher of diversifying your portfolio. I've actually said publicly on Twitter that I own more equities than I do crypto. Can you even believe that? And that's just because I've had years to actually compound these gains. And then eventually it gets to a point where your money's kind of being made for you just by investing in equities and continuing to DCA. And I might do a video on that in the future, but link in the description to the link too. If you do wanna check out some of their investment options, once again, not financial advice in regards to any specific products, you do your own research before you invest in anything of course. But I think it's great that we can give you guys the option to get access to these deals that not everyone can typically get access to. So let's get on with the rest of the video. I said I was gonna talk about a catalyst, which I thought was really, really crucial for crypto. And it's actually this, which Rand did talk about on his show, but I've seen most other channels are completely ignored. And this was the news that they are going to be implementing in fair 2025 value accounting rules for Bitcoin. So let me read through what this means. Under the current practice right now, which doesn't provide clear guidelines on how firms should disclose their crypto holdings, firms treat their crypto as indefinite lived intangible assets, which includes trademarks, copyrights, and other items that are rarely traded. As a result, companies record their crypto at the historical price they paid and review their holdings every quarter for impairments. Holdings are considered impaired even if the price of a crypto falls temporarily during this period. And values can't be upwardly revised if the price recovers. They have to take the lowest price for that time period. Now this has huge ramifications because it can misrepresent their balance sheets in a negative way and under represent the total value of their crypto assets. And this makes it pretty hard for like a big company. Like, you know, think about these big institutions, like the big funds and like your apples, et cetera, to actually hold Bitcoin because they're constantly dealing with potential negative ramifications in terms of how they're going to have to report this, especially for companies with, you know, duty of care to their stakeholders because they are publicly traded. They don't want any sort of, you know, negative reflection back on their books because they invested in crypto and they couldn't report it properly. So there's a big change coming in, which is going to allow fair value accounting for Bitcoin, ETH, and other crypto assets, which essentially will enable you to record gains and losses immediately and classify crypto assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum as true financial assets and not as intangible assets like they previously were, like trademarks, copyrights, et cetera. This is going to take effect in 2025. And I think as a result, many new companies are going to be able to add Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies to their balance sheets and not be scared about the misalignment of the previous reporting practices and actually be able to take advantage of the tax benefits for drawdowns and also the reporting benefits when crypto recovers and is performing super well. So I think it actually is very impactful on the market long -term because it's going to enable companies that previously didn't want to invest in crypto to invest in crypto. And you line that up alongside like a Bitcoin spot ETF. And overall, these are really good conditions for like the institutional adoption of crypto. And yes, the prices are moving, I know, but we're just building slowly. We're slowly implementing these rules. We're slowly implementing legislation and it's building really slowly. And yes, we have drawbacks. So we might take, you know, four steps ahead and then two steps back when Gary Gensler does something or sues someone and then three steps ahead and then another two steps back, you know, when there's another kind of regulatory upheaval. But along the way, we get these major wins, which makes crypto more easily adopted to the masses. And at the end of the day, that is the whole vision of cryptocurrency. And that vision is being realized, not just for Bitcoin, but for old coins like Solana, for example, which we saw Visa actually starting to accept USDC payments on the Solana network, which is huge that, you know, they not only chose to use the Solana blockchain, but more importantly, they showed their support for USDC. They're actually backing a stable coin and showing that they believe in stable coins in the ecosystem of cross border payments. I think that's massive for the cryptocurrency industry. And it's also good for Solana. Once again, Solana price didn't move, but it's the same story as this whole video. Another big catalyst we got, and this video is just stacked with good news. It's a happy day. It's OPM day. Smash the like button if you like the optimism, but I think it's genuinely caused to be optimistic some of the developments we had this week. We saw MetaMask announce their recent feature, which is the sell feature. Now, when I first saw this, I made a joke on Twitter, like, oh, you know, we're in a bear market. Now it's easier for people to sell their assets, but having people be more easily able to sell their assets is actually amazing because it's going to incentivize them to on -ramp money when they know that they can off -ramp money. Think about it like this. Remember the Ethereum Shanghai upgrade? Remember how the staking ratio of ETH was like really stagnant and people didn't want to stake? And look at the staking ratio increase that happened post -Shanghai. Why did that happen? Well, it's because people could redeem their Ethereum on the beacon chain. So if they previously deposited, they could then actually get their Ethereum back and they didn't have it locked in the ecosystem. That is an example of people's willingness to deposit when they know that they can withdraw. It's the exact same as MetaMask, where people may be more willing to deposit into crypto if they know they can easily off -ramp because off -ramping is a huge problem right now. Like I've had problems with this in the past. Some of my friends have had problems with this in the past. People in the industry have problems with this all the time. Like, you know, banks being tricky, exchanges being tricky, selling is just sometimes not easy in crypto to get fiat currency. Well, MetaMask is now essentially going to enable you to click sell on your wallet, convert straight to fiat and off -ramp straight to your bank account. That is huge in my opinion. And it also definitely leads the way for people to feel more comfortable transacting into cryptocurrency and not just out of cryptocurrency because they know there's a way out. They know they're not trapped in the ecosystem. So look, I know there was kind of a lot of memes around this and I even joked around it, but you know, actually thinking about this, it is quite bullish I think for the long -term adoption prospects of crypto. Now it's only being piloted at the moment. It's only available in a few jurisdictions, but I expect as this rolls out and as this kind of thing becomes more commonplace amongst crypto wallets and crypto dapps, this is a great precedent for the industry as a whole and undeniably a net positive. So that is kind of my video on the crypto catalyst, specifically 10. We actually did talk about 10, but I just kind of sporadically went through them. 10 catalysts that I think are holding Bitcoin and holding the crypto market in good stead for huge adoption in the future. And look, I know price action is kind of boring right now and I know it's easy to get despondent, but the point I made this video is don't forget where we're headed. Don't let the destination evade you just because the path has become more difficult. Always look at the final destination and then you'll actually be able to get some sleep at night because you're not gonna worry about the chop. We know the market will chop in between, but we know where it's going in the future and that's all we need in order to be successful investors over the long -term. All we need to do is have a long -term approach to crypto. Sure, we have a fun trading in the short -term. Sure, we ape into altcoins and do crazy decentralized shit in the short -term, but long -term, we're actually just prepping our portfolios for what we believe in as a disruptive industry that is really on the precipice of gaining mass adoption. And certainly these catalysts lend pretty well towards that. Talking about mass adoption, we just partnered with a new company on the show, which is offering something that I think is gonna be extremely important for mass adoption and that is storage and actually secure storage for the future of crypto. So Serenity Shield have built an amazing product that is essentially a privacy -preserving application that enables you to store, transfer, and recover confidential data. So you know how LastPass is on centralized servers and you put your passwords in and you put important information in, but you know it's on centralized servers and you know it's not living on the blockchain so you know it's not immutable. Well, they're essentially gonna solve that problem because they're building a permissionless protocol built using smart contracts that allows you to store confidential data, recover confidential data, and has a privacy -preserving element to make sure that you're the only one that sees that data and that data is properly encrypted. Now there's a very cool feature that Strongbox actually has and it's this transfer feature which maybe you don't want to think about, but it's something you should think about and that's inheritance, right? So if something unfortunately happens to you and you've got all this Bitcoin, what happens to that Bitcoin? I mean, there's been many cases of Bitcoin just being completely lost if something happens to someone or even if you're fined and you just misplaced your Bitcoin, there's no direct way for your loved ones, your friends, your family to access those assets. Serenity Shield has essentially come up with the solution to this problem by having a dedicated transfer inheritance built in function from Serenity Shield which enables you to have the peace of mind that your data is going to be safe. It allows you to store your data forever and that's a really important aspect of mass adoption in crypto for the future. It's actually where are people going to store their Bitcoin, their Ethereum? Where are people going to store these assets and keep them safe? And for people that maybe have like family trust, where are they going to store it so they know that it's accessible for family members? Well, this could potentially be the solution. Now their product isn't live yet. They just finished their test net. They're going into main net soon, but in the meantime, they do have a presale. So if you're interested in this kind of concept and you're interested in getting involved, I'll leave a link in the description for the presale where you can get your hands on and I'm not shilling the token. I'm not like necessarily endorsing that you buy the token, do your own research, work out whether it's something you like. I just thought I would let you know and keep you updated that they do have a presale round three for the next two weeks that you can get involved in. If you're interested in this kind of thing and you can see the token price, the vesting terms, the cliff, all that stuff in front of you, but it is going to be the utility token of the ecosystem as well and the subsequent projects that they launch in the ecosystem. But they're building a really cool product and if you want to check it out, there's a link in the description because yeah, I think it's going to be a pretty cool product that I'm going to show you guys on the show and I believe in it as an important piece of infrastructure for the future of crypto ownership and data storage. So thank you to Serenity Shield for sponsoring the show, of course. And if you enjoyed this video, smash the like button, let me know in the comments what your favorite catalyst is from the list of 10 that I read out. It may have been nine, it may have been 11, but hopefully it was 10 and I'll see you in the next video, which is going to be tomorrow. Have a lovely day. Peace out everyone.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from IP#499 Gil Bailie The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com presents Inside the Pages, insights from today's most compelling authors. I'm your host, Chris McGregor, and I'm delighted to be joined by Gil Bailey, who is the founder of the Cornerstone Forum and a member of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars and the College of Fellows of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. He is the author of God's Gamble, The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love. With Gil Bailey, we go inside the pages of The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self, Recovering the Christian Mystery of Personhood, published by Angelico Press. Gil, thank you so much for joining me. Thank you so much for having me. Pleasure to be here. It was just wonderful being able to dive into the pages of The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self. I found it to be so provocative and also very compelling. It's one of those kind of books that causes you to look at things through different, maybe clear lenses. Does that make sense? Well, I hope so. That flatters me, but that was my intent. It's a complex problem we face, but I tried to lay it out in a way that would be at least interesting to the reader. Now, I should bring out the full name, including the subtitle, The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self, Recovering the Christian Mystery of Personhood. Could you break that open for folks and help them understand why this is such an important subject right now? Well, first of all, before you get to the two, really two halves of the book, the first part, The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self, and the second part, Recovering the Christian Mystery of Personhood. We're in a civilizational crisis, and it's a political and a political crisis, a deep relative to moral and spiritual crisis. And my friend and mentor, Rene Girard, summed up in one of their books when he wrote, No one takes the trouble to reflect uncompromisingly on the enigma of a historical situation here that is without precedent the death of all cultures. Now, that's a sweeping statement, but it's like statements made by Benedict XVI on Balthasar and others. It recognizes the unique depth of the crisis that we've been entering into for a long time. I think one of the key features of this crisis is that we have failed to recognize and do justice to the very thing that sets us apart, sets our human beings apart from the whole created order, namely our religious longing. It's a longing which cannot be extinguished. It's the only question of orienting it towards its fulfillment or squandering it on idols. And in our time as faith has receded, many are eager to reflect before any ideological fraction that promises to relieve the boredom of not having a real collision. So that's the situation we face. And in the first part of the book, I try to draw it out in that chapters are, you know, I'm not an academic. I have a law degree and I never practiced law, but I began reading Western China many, many years ago. So the way to make this crisis intelligible and easy to recognize is I lay it out in chapters where I talk about people like Bob Dylan and Theresa Mitzvah and Flannery O 'Connor and Virginia Woolf and Descartes and Rousseau and Nietzsche and T .F. Eliot and Freud and all these. But in each of these chapters, I try to tease out one of the facets of spiritual crisis. And in the second half of the book, there's an edition on something. I mean, the way to summarize it is from Romano Lardini wrote in the 20th century, a book strikingly entitled The End of the Modern World. And in it, there's something that summarizes the second half of the book. Well, it actually connects the first half and the second half. And I'm going to quote it to you. The knowledge of what it means to be a person is inextricably bound up with the faith of Christianity. An affirmation and cultivation of the personal can endure for a time perhaps after faith has been extinguished. But gradually, they too will be lost. So the knowledge of what it means to be a person inextricably bound up with Christianity came into our vocabulary, our intellectual vocabulary. When Tertullian defined the Trinity as three persons and one God. So the word self and the word person are not only not synonymous, they are antonyms in a way. A person called in sin. The self is an antonymic creature who regards the will and the essential component of this being. And that whole triumph of will to coin a threat, not to coin a threat, but to pick up on Christ, so to say, with Nietzsche and Hitler. We think everything depends on our will. And I don't have a quote in front of me, but in the Casey decision, I think it was 1990, the Supreme Court said in the majority opinion that everyone has a right to use their own reality, to define reality. That's Nietzsche. That's that, of course. Right. But now it's become part of our it's what it's what a lot of people believe. And that's why we have friends, gender nonsense and who knows what else. But you can just make it up as you go along. If it's your reality is entirely up to you to determine by an act of will. And it's unbelievable what comes of that. And what we have to understand is that we are not the world does not conform to our will. We conform to our own. We are called in them. So anyway, the crisis we're living in is a crisis that became cultural with Nancy and Piddler and so on. But now it's become conventional in the sense that triumph of the will is everywhere. It's at one time, of course, and it's degradation of our real person to be a person is to be called in sin. And I think it's imperative we understand the predicament that we're in. And I think that's really important. I think for most in the culture today, for several generations, at the very least, if not many more in that we've never had the types of conversations in our formation, our educational venues about this particular subject. I mean, you spoke of a great friendship you had with Rene Girard, an important figure, philosopher, teacher, Stanford, and some would say a theologian. I know that Bishop Baron referred to him as one day. He may be considered, as he said, a father of modern theology because of what he described as that mimic theory that we as individuals and not necessarily as persons, because there's that distinction between the individual and what it is to be a person. And you knew him very well. That whole understanding of, as some would say, the mimic theory. What are your thoughts about that? Well, it was a great privilege to know him and he dispensed with him for decades. And I think his work will take a while, like all great thinkers. It takes a while to sort itself out. The first take on Girard is that it's all about violence and imitation. And of course, in some way it is. And my first book was all about that. But there's so much more to it. And one of the things I tried in this book is to expand the understanding of Girard's his favorite theologians are the same as mine. It was John Culver II, Benedict, Van Valken, even though Van Valken had some complaints about Rene's early work. And that's before the real theological implications came out in its later book. But he had great affection for John Culver II and especially for Cardinal Ratzinger, Benedict XVI, but also do it again, and so on. So I try to integrate Rene's work with these theologians. And I think it helped fill out a deep Catholic understanding of our crisis. And so I think we're in a difficult situation. But we have been given intellectual and spiritual giant whose work now we can make available to ourselves that would reckon with the predicament we're in. Well, I think that's how Rene Girard and how someone even like a G .K. Chesterton, for example, they were able to challenge them in their early lives when they looked at literature, when they looked at art and those popular cultural icons, those types of works that had deeper meanings to them. And they were able to see certain truths and certain movements and things. And then they came out and then they expressed it, why it touches the human heart in certain ways, either for good or for ill. And they were able to distinguish that. And I think that's the importance of looking at those figures who have a gift for that. And you do that, like you said, whether it's Bob Dylan or it's Flannery O 'Connor or even someone who captures the heart and imagination of the world like a tres. What is it that they're trying to communicate to us in? What is the potential, the beauty, the good, the true, but also the warning that are contained in their expressions of their works? And I think that's what you're trying to do in the book, in each of the many, many chapters that you have on those different type of whether it's literature or it's prose or, again, even in music. And so I think that is a wonderful way to go about it, don't you? You know, I'm so happy you mentioned it because it reminds me of something that I think your listeners might be interested in. It's a way of approaching the situation we're in. von Balfour Jarre, in one of his writings, says to human history after the Christian revelation, consist of a mutual intensification of the yes and no to Christ. Now pause and think about that. History after Christ consists of the mutual intensification of the yes and no to Christ. If that seems to require too much theological sophistication. Bob Dylan said something exactly like that in this 1979 song, God Accured Somebody, in which he said, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord, but you're going to have to bury somebody. So both the theologian and the popular poet listed only two choices. The theologian said it's the yes or no to Christ, and the poet musician said we're going to end up serving either the devil or the Lord. Now where Testament comes in is the Testament said once that if everyone, I'm going to paraphrase him because I think it's a little punchier to say this, like if everyone lived a thousand years they would all die Catholic, which is the paraphrase of what he once said. And the reason is, I would say, he didn't spell it out, I'm going to, if we had a thousand years of experience to look back on, we would realize that all the little choices were made along the way were in some small way the yes or the no to Christ, or the choice between the devil and the Lord. And then we would understand, if we had a thousand years of experience, that the drama of history is the mutual intensification of yes and no to Christ. And the implication that for our time and thought is that as the world becomes more emphatic in its projection of Christianity, we have to become more compelling in our sense of Christ in its church. over spiritual 3000 formation programs and prayers, all available to you with no hidden fees or subscriptions. Did you also know that you can listen to Discerning Hearts programming wherever you download your favorite podcasts, like Apple podcasts, Google Play, iHeartRadio, Spotify, even on Audible, as well as numerous other worldwide podcast streaming platforms? And did you know that Discerning Hearts also has a YouTube channel? Be sure to check out all these different places where you can find Discerning Hearts Catholic podcasts dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. Discerning Hearts is your gateway to a deeper understanding of discerning life's mysteries and growing deeper in your relationship with Christ. Your likes and reviews not only affirm the value these podcasts bring to your spiritual journey, but also help others discover the guidance and inspiration they seek. Share your thoughts, spread the word, and be part of a community that's committed to elevating hearts and minds through meaningful conversations. Your feedback fuels our mission to help others climb higher and go deeper in their spiritual growth. Like, review, and let your voice be a beacon of light for fellow seekers on this spiritual journey. We now return to Inside the Pages. We're talking with Gail Bailey, the author of The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self, recovering the Christian mystery of personhood. To understand the importance of what it is to be a person, the Church Fathers didn't use until it was really brought into the context of the Trinity, the three persons, as you pointed out. But what is the Trinity? It's relational. It's a relationship. There's an identity, but it's also in relation. So when Dylan talks about whether you are to serve, you got to serve somebody, it's either going to be the devil or it's going to be Christ. And that entails when you serve, it's going to be relational. You can't get out of it. And to say that I have this individual autonomy all to myself to do and think the way I want to, it's to negate the relationship. And you can't get around that. But yet that's what the culture is implying, isn't it? It is. And one of the things that's lost in that emphasis on self and self -will is the idea and this is involved with our great contribution, the idea of the field drama that we are in, we live dramatically, we're part of a drama that's unfolding and our task is to live and our task is to fulfill the obligation that are incumbent upon us as members of the cast. We have to live in such a way that we ourselves and our loved ones and spreading out for those we know or maybe those of you catch a glimpse of us coming out of the church on Wednesday morning and wonder what the heck are people doing in church on Wednesday morning. Whatever it is, we have an obligation to live in the drama on behalf of Christ in this church in whatever way we can. Whatever our role in life, our vocation in life, our situation, there's always an opportunity to be an icon of Christ and to contribute to the historical field drama that way. And for years I've quoted the 13th century Islamic poet Rumi who said, and I'm gonna quote, he said, be like one who when he walks into the room, luck shifts to the one who needs you. And there's a Christian analog to that which is of course St. Peter who said always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks here to give a reason for the hope you have. So we have to be beacons of a hope that may be totally puzzling to others but if we live in such a way that it's compelling, they will at some point want to find out how we tend to have that hope and a conversation can be had that could be very fruitful. So we live dramatically, not in some self -conscious way or in a physical way, but our lives should be evangelical in the sense that we should be willing and eager to allow anyone who cares to know why it is we had hope even when the situation is, it's never hopeless, but is dire as there is today and may very well be more so in the future.
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 655:Judge Sez ETH Not a Security, Uniswap Wins, Binances Strategies
"Rockstar Energy Punched. Bringing a bold and unapologetic flavor packed with energy through a blend of B vitamins, corona extract, and 240 milligrams of caffeine to fuel what's next. Rockstar Energy Drink. Good evening and welcome to The Crypto Overnight -er. I'm Nicodemus and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax, and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10 PM Pacific on Thursday, August 31st, 2023. Welcome back to The Crypto Overnight -er, where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas, and no BS. But we do have the news, so let's talk about that. Tonight we're diving into a pivotal court ruling that could shape the future of DeFi. GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy shares his crypto vision and grayscale scores a legal victory. Binance pivots with both a stablecoin swap and ambitious plans in Japan. EOS breaks through regulatory barriers, also in Japan. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong lays out a roadmap for crypto's future. And finally, Robinhood is making moves that could reshape its position in the crypto landscape. A US district court judge in New York dismissed a class action lawsuit against Uniswap Labs. Now, just as a point of interest, the judge has won Katherine Polk Fela, Judge Fela is also overseeing the SEC's case against Coinbase. So this may portend of things to come. Six crypto investors filed the lawsuit. They claimed that they were scammed on Uniswap between December 2020 and March 2022. The plaintiffs argued that Uniswap Labs controlled its liquidity pools. They said this included pools created by scammers. The lawsuit sought to rescind smart contracts and demanded compensation. And here it comes, folks, possibly the most important part. Judge Fela termed Bitcoin and Ethereum as crypto commodities. She was not convinced Uniswap's token sales fell under federal securities laws. This is a pivotal moment, not just for Uniswap, but for the crypto space at large. The judge's decision to dismiss the case against Uniswap is a win for decentralized finance. It sets a precedent that could shield DeFi protocols from similar lawsuits in the future. The judge's comments show a deep understanding of DeFi technology. She stated that concerns about crypto regulation are better addressed to Congress than to the court. This is a clear signal to lawmakers who have been slow to provide regulatory clarity over digital assets. The judge's ruling also comes at a time when the Securities Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are at odds over crypto regulation. The SEC's chair, Gary Gensler, claimed that everything apart from Bitcoin is a security. On the other hand, the CFTC claimed that Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies are commodities. This case could serve as a reference point in future regulatory debates. While Judge Phela's ruling on Uniswap is a beacon of hope, the regulatory landscape isn't all roses. GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has some choice words for the SEC. Stick around, you won't want to miss this. And don't forget to subscribe for the latest updates.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from BNB Starter Pack (Biggest Coin In Crypto?)
"What happens when you combine binary and finance? Well, you get Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world. And say you want to invest in this behemoth native token, BNB, where you're a little confused by all the name changes and rebrands. Don't worry. I'm going to break it down all for you. This is your BNB starter pack. Let's get it. Binance was founded back in July 2017 by Shengping Zhao, who goes by CZ and co -founder Heiyi. Now, CZ acts as CEO and the face of the company, while Heiyi works as the chief marketing officer. And right around the same time, the team ICOed their native token Binance Coin, also known as BNB. For those who don't know, ICO means Initial Coin Offering and acts very similarly to an IPO in traditional finance. 2022 might have been a boring bear market, but it was an exciting time for the Binance rebranding team because they changed their name behind BNB from Binance Coin to Build & Build in an attempt to disassociate from the centralized Binance exchange from the supposedly decentralized BNB landscape. BNB has a total supply of $200 million, and during the ICO, the Binance team received 40 % of $80 million BNB, with 20 % of that vested per year so they couldn't dump on holders. Angel investors received 10%, which was $20 million BNB, and the public sale included 50%, 100 million BNB. They started the price at 15 cents and raised about $15 million, 35 % of which they put towards their platform and exchange upgrades, 50 % of which they use for brand marketing and innovation, and 15 % was reserved for emergencies. At the height of the bull run, the price skyrocketed to just over $686, with a market cap of over $100 billion. Now, the total supply of BNB started out as $202 million. However, 20 % of profits are used to buy back BNB and burn it every quarter, creating a deflationary effect. In 2017, the team committed to destroy half the total supply over time. That's 100 billion BNB that will be poof, gone. At the time of recording, we just had the 24th BNB burn, and so far over 48 million BNB had been burned, leaving 153 million circulating supply. Previously, burns were calculated based on BNB trading volume on the Binance exchange, but in December 2021, the team implemented BNB AutoBurn. BNB AutoBurn uses the BNB price as well as the blocks generated on the BNB chain each quarter to determine how many coins should be burned. It also allows users to burn lost tokens and be reimbursed by the BNB Pioneer program. The Bruno hard fork also came with the ability to burn a portion of gas fees on the BNB chain. Now, all of this sounds great and deflationary, right? Well, yes, in theory, it's a great way to maintain and pump the price, but there are a few downsides to token burns. Sometimes it can create a supply squeeze, greater transaction costs, and even make a token more centralized. But Binance seems to be aware of the centralization concerns, and to date has invested more than a billion dollars in the BNB ecosystem in hopes of alleviating those concerns. Now, let's talk a little bit about that BNB ecosystem, shall we? Binance is now referring to the entire world of BNB as the BNB chain. Think of it as a lovely umbrella for lots of cool projects. Probably not Umbrella Corp, though. The OG member of BNB chain is now called BNB Beacon Chain, previously known as Binance Chain. This chain was created in April 2019 and supported the Binance DEX, which is the decentralized exchange, which created a better user experience to other exchanges that tended to be a bit slow and clunky. It uses Golang programming language and a peer -to -peer consensus mechanism where validators maintain all the data and validate all the transactions. They also vote to produce blocks, collecting and distributing fees amongst themselves. It's BNB's version of Bitcoin or Ethereum's miners. The block size holds up to one megabyte and the blocks are created in a few seconds, holding up to several thousand transactions. BNB Beacon Chain uses a BEP -2 token standard, unlike its sister chain, BNB Smart Chain, previously known as Binance Smart Chain, which uses a BEP -20 token. We'll talk more about BNB Smart Chain in a bit. Funnily enough, BNB started out as an ERC -20 token, but when the team launched the BNB chain in 2019, they converted the token to BEP -2. Like we said, BNB loves a rebrand even more than Elon Musk. Throw your ex up. So if you've ever been confused about which token to use or how to send your BNB for trading, you're not alone. In a project that prides itself on user -friendly speed and low fees, the various token standards are the trickiest part for new users. There's BEP -2, BEP -20 and even a BEP -8 token protocol, which is designed to launch projects at a lower cost on the mini token trading page on the Binance DEX. BEP -2 is only used for BNB chain governance, staking and voting. Holders get one vote per 50 BNB average daily holdings. It can also be traded and used for transaction fees on the Binance DEX, which runs on the BNB Beacon Chain. Be careful if you're new to trading BNB. If you're using the BEP -2 token, you won't be able to transfer your BNB to Ethereum -based wallets like MetaMask. If you try, you will lose your tokens and I'll be really sad for you. I may even cry. But one thing I'm not crying about is Stake sponsoring this video. Special thanks to them. The BEP -2 token addresses typically have BNB at the beginning versus the BEP -20 token wall addresses that start with 0x like Ethereum. There are a lot of videos that go more in depth about how to convert your BNB back and forth between BEP -2 and BEP -20 token standards, but I won't go into depth here. Like I said, just be careful. So now, let's chat about the chain that uses BEP -20 token, BNB Smart Chain. BNB Beacon Chain didn't support smart contracts, and updating it would have bogged down the network, so the team created a whole new chain, BNB Smart Chain. Binance forked Ethereum code, making it faster and cheaper. If you don't know what forking is, it's the definition of imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Basically, it means duplicating someone else's code and making some minor tweaks. Forking ETH's code made it easy for developers to move projects over to BNB Smart Chain without doing a whole lot of work. BNB Smart Chain also uses Solidity, which is the most widely used programming language for Ethereum. BNB Smart Chain allows for cross -chain asset transfers, smart contracts and EVM compatibility, which is the Ethereum virtual machine, all the while maintaining transaction fees significantly lower than Ethereum, typically less than $1. It felt like a prayer had been answered back when Ethereum fees had gone through the roof. However, because the transactions were so low and it was pretty cheap to create new tokens, it became really easy for scammers and rug pullers to create new projects with zero accountability. Other cool functions of BNB include their own cashback debit card, paying for travel on certain websites and using it across crypto land to buy virtual land or play games. Since July 2022, the average block size for BNB Smart Chain has ranged from about 50 ,000 to 26 ,000 bytes with a typical speed of a bit over 3 seconds, which spikes sometimes during heavy activity. It has a different consistency mechanism for the BNB Beacon Chain using proof of staked authority. Participants stake their BNB to become validators, and when they propose a block, they receive a transaction fee. BNB Smart Chain recently increased their validator limit from 21 to 41, which seems like an attempt at further decentralization. You need 10 ,000 BNB to become a validator, but regular users can become part of this process by choosing a validator with which to stake their BNB, and then they receive part of the rewards. The consensus method is fast, cheap and uses less energy than a proof of work model. A couple other interesting projects under the BNB Chain umbrella include Binance Launchpad and BNB Greenfield, which was launched in 2023. Launchpad is an ICO platform that allows BNB holders to get early access to new projects, and the BNB Greenfield is not actually a green field. It's a decentralized data storage system where data is stored across several computers or nodes. Large amounts of data can be stored off -chain without a centralized entity like Google or Apple Cloud. This increases security since it's harder for hackers to handicap, increases user control, freedom and privacy, and can facilitate data transfer to BNB Smart Chain to interact with decentralized apps. BNB has created such a robust ecosystem that is separate from parent company Binance that it continues to grow despite the lawsuit launched against Binance by the SEC in June of this year. Since then, BNB Smart Chain has pushed forward, releasing OP BNB, a layer 2 testnet powered by Optimism, and then in July of this year, BNB Beacon Chain completed its Zhang Hang hard fork, which added even more security to the network. The BNB Chain is growing so quickly that you will need to keep up to date on all the news if you want to invest in this project. Take this starter pack and run. Thanks for watching. Hit the like button and subscribe to the channel for more crypto news and education. DZ out.
Bankless
A highlight from Scaling Ethereum To The Next Level with zkEVM
"Hey, Bankless Nation. I'm very excited about the episode today. David is out, and this episode gets technical at times, so I have ETH researcher, Justin Drake, whom I'm sure many of you know. He's co -hosting with me today. Some context as we get into this episode. So we did a previous episode a few weeks ago called The Sci -Fi Roadmap to Ethereum, and in that episode, Justin Drake described the end game for Ethereum, and he said this, we snarkify everything. In today's episode, we explore exactly what that means and how we do it. How do we snarkify everything? Our guest today is Brian Redford. He is the co -founder of what might be the world's first Type 1 ZK EVM, and if you don't know what that means, that's fine. Neither did I, as we're getting into this episode, and it turns out that building a Type 1 ZK EVM is an important part of delivering what Justin Drake called an enshrined roll -up inside of Ethereum. More on that in just a minute, but before we get in, just wanna mention something quick from our friends and sponsors over at Safe. Safe is the multisig wallet we recommend for crypto, and you've heard us talk about smart contract wallets many times, how they're gonna 10x the crypto wallet experience. We definitely believe that's true, and Safe recently proposed their modular open -source safe core protocol as a standard for the industry so that we can all move forward and transition to the smart contract wallet future, and they want you to check it out, so there's a link for the devs in the show notes. Safe really believes this is an opportunity to create a unified standard to smart catapult contract accounts onto the EVM. The standard itself is unopinionated and vendor agnostic and maintains interoperability and smart contract diversity, so go check it out. And also to check out, Safe is organizing the first ever conference dedicated to smart contract wallets and account abstraction. That happens the second week of December. There'll be a link in the show notes to go register for that as well. So thanks to Safe for building into the frontier. All right, speaking of the frontier, back to Ethereum enshrined rollups. So why are we having this conversation, and why now? The compute era is scaled with Moore's Law, but the blockchain era scales with something differently. It scales with cryptography, specifically cryptographic breakthroughs like zk -SNARKs, and all of this zk -SNARK stuff, the SNARKifying of the EVM, it's all happening a lot faster than any of us previously thought. It's happening so fast that a project called RISC0 just came on our radar last week, and they've already produced a working version of the world's first zk -SNARKified type one EVM. What kinds of things could this unlock in the future? Why is this important? Well, what if we could convert an optimistic rollup to a zk rollup? What if we could upgrade Ethereum's layer one from a single threaded EVM model to a multi -threaded EVMs, so that compute was virtually limitless and free? What if ETH validators themselves had the ability to run from something as small as a smartwatch? All of these are possible unlocks with this technology. This is crazy cool, deep stuff. Down the crypto rabbit hole we go, and it gets technical at times, but it's absolutely worth holding on for the ride. This is crazy cool stuff, and we're going deep down the rabbit hole today, and this gets technical at times, but I think it's absolutely worth it to hold on for the ride, because this is key to understanding how blockchains actually work and how they scale. And in so understanding, I think this type of thing can help you avoid bad investments and dead ends, and there are a lot of those out in the space as well. 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So visit arbitrum .io, where you can join the community, dive into the developer docs, bridge your assets, and start building your first app with Arbitrum. Experience web3 development the way it was always meant to be. Secure, fast, cheap, and friction -free. Bankless Nation, I am super excited to introduce you to Brian Redford. He's the co -founder of a ZK EVM project that we're gonna find out a bit more about on today's episode called Risk Zero. Brian, welcome to Bankless. Thanks, glad to be here. Also excited to be joined yet again on Bankless by Justin Drake, he's an Ethereum researcher and repeat Bankless guest. Justin, how you doing? I'm doing great, thanks for having me again. But I guess this time, maybe as a host asking some technical questions. Yeah, how's it feel? The tables have turned. So Justin, I'm gonna tap you in as my co -host today. So David is out and we're gonna talk about the next generation ZK EVMs. So I think we're talking to Brian about the world's first maybe ZK EVM. That's a type one ZK EVM. And I'm not even sure the words that I'm saying or what they mean. So we'll absolutely need to define that. But David's out right now. So Justin, you're gonna tap in and help me with this. I feel like this is a continuation though of a conversation that you had with him on ETHCC. And I think Bankless listeners may have listened to an episode entitled Ethereum's sci -fi roadmap or the sci -fi roadmap to Ethereum in which there was this really interesting part. And I love that episode, by the way, where you were describing the ability of us in the future of Ethereum to snarkify the EVM on kind of main net, on the base layer. And that sounded really interesting to me. And I think that ties into the conversation that we're about to have. So tee this up for us, if you will, Justin, as a continuation on that conversation. I know we're talking about sci -fi Ethereum future stuff, but what does it mean to snarkify the EVM? And how does that tie into the conversation we're about to have with Brian today? Right, so big picture, we're actually going to snarkify all of Ethereum. And there's two big components that need to be snarkified. One is the EVM, which is this virtual machine which processes Ethereum transactions. And then the other part is the beacon chain. Now, once we've snarkified these two things, we'll be in a position where compute won't ever be a bottleneck for Ethereum. So it means that, for example, as a validator, you won't have to really have beefy CPUs. So you'll be able to be a validator on your smartwatch. If you're building bridges between L1s, you'll be able to have another L1, verify the state of Ethereum without having to redo all the computations themselves. It also has implications for light clients, for what we call enshrine roll -ups, which are super high security roll -ups.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 288 - From Stress Relief to Joyful Moments: The Many Roles of Music in Caregiving
"The music is always changing so some songs are triggering a memory and others maybe they're just tapping along to and so it's probably the same you could experience this for yourself if you just played a a set list of songs from an era gone by songs you haven't heard in 10 or 20 years some of them are going to make you pick up and go oh this yeah i remember this one and some of them will make you sing along but others you might just kind of enjoy in the background and um and so that's kind of what's happening it's the amount of stimulation is completely personal and experiences like Roy's are unfortunately not that common they happen i'd say five to ten percent of the time um but for everybody we see lifts in mood improvements in sleep um and and those a reduction in those things like anxiety and aggravation and so on music can uniquely transport individuals with dementia to specific moments in their past eliciting reminiscence and triggering positive emotions it can reduce anxiety and agitation creating a calming and soothing environment caregivers often use personalized playlists incorporating songs from the individual's youth or culturally significant music to promote engagement and spark memories but what if you can't find the right music to connect with your loved one that was my situation which made me the ideal person to chat with steven hunt of vera an app that helps you find the specific pieces of music that will likely invoke all of the positive benefits that i just listed welcome to fading memories the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia i'm your host jennifer finke my mom had alzheimer's for 20 years and when i went looking for answers i had to start a podcast to find them join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving through personal stories expert interviews and practical advice we'll explore effective communication strategies stress management techniques and ways to cope with the emotional journey this podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment let's share our experiences find solace and discover the strength within us get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with fading memories if you're looking for additional advice be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter it's brief gives you great advice you can read it in less than five minutes and you know where to find the link in the website on the show notes we're working on subscriber only information and specials so you're not going to want to miss out unfortunately it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society with modern technology scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before americans over the age of 65 especially those living with alzheimer's and dementia are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week that's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones even worse nearly 10 of these calls have no caller id making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens you need imp imp offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams imp only allows wanted callers to ring through stopped our 100 of the spam scam political fundraising debt collection and survey calls before a single ring traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry don't wait until it's too late protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimp as in paul .com also the link is in the show notes now on with our show thanks for joining me again fading memories listeners you know i always appreciate your time in your ears i have today my first australian guest they are recording from the it's kind of exciting to talk to somebody on the whole other side of the world with me is stephen hunt he is the co -founder of music health it's an app that is designed for many mental health purposes but it's also got a connection for those of us taking care of a loved one with dementia so thanks for joining me stephen do you go by steve or stephen uh steve okay stick with that jennifer a little zoom box says steven so so tell me about yourself before we were before i hit record you were giving me the details on your family history of lovely diseases like mine so start wherever you'd like to start with yeah well i'd like to start with um so music health as a as a company we started it with a mission to reintegrate music into health care and the premise here is that if you look at any ancient human civilization whether it be the aztecs the incas or the indigenous people of australia they all use music to heal and so this has been going back over 40 000 years in fact the indigenous people of australia used one of these it's the oldest recorded form of music therapy which takes back 40 000 years and we've forgotten all about that because we invented pharmaceuticals and we just now prescribe a drug and hope that's going to fix the problem uh but we really see it out in our company that there's an opportunity to reintegrate music into health care very broadly and we're starting with dementia because in than any pharmaceutical and as we know most pharmaceuticals aren't really making any difference with dementia we're nowhere near a cure nothing's really cutting through we're kind of just treating little symptoms here and there and and often the people that we start to work with have this massive cocktail of drugs they're on that are trying to compensate for each other's side effects and it's just their brains are even more scrambled um so but we've seen with music that it can completely transform them and i guess what drew me to this is as you said a personal connection my grandfather experienced alzheimer's disease when i was in my teens and i was watched him go through that progression with my grandmother who was caring for him and as i'm sure everybody who listens to this would know that's really heartbreaking for anybody to experience and incredibly difficult um but i was a musician as you can see i've got a few instruments behind me and um and i used to play music and it used to soothe him and kind of change and transform him and at the time i had no idea why i didn't know the science of it but but anyway but my grandmother also developed dementia but lived to the age of 100 so i think she was entitled to lose a few memories there um and um and yeah and i i was working in the music industry and a good friend of mine who was a who's now my co -founder nick um came to me one day with the film alive inside and i don't know have you ever seen it um i haven't seen it but i actually did an episode about it with a gentleman that was involved amazing so it's if you don't want to watch the whole thing which i do highly recommend bring the tissues um but if you don't have time even just going on youtube you can watch a few short clips and you'll get the idea um but that film was demonstrating the music and memory program which um which is incredible and that inspired us so what you what you see is this transformative effect of someone who is experiencing dementia is quite lost in space and time they don't know where they are um they don't know who their carers are they're probably feeling a little afraid and and that fear can manifest into either you know regretting regressing sorry into anxiety and depression or expressing in a much more aggressive and agitated manner and and neither of those are good um but both are very difficult to manage for carer and when they play music to these people that is from their past that's personally significant to them they become alive and hence the name of the movie it it quickens and they they seem to come back they seem to get a better use of their faculties they can move their body they can talk they can swallow and eat um and they can remember faces much more readily because what's happening is the music is stimulating their long -term memory and for some reason alzheimer's and dementia doesn't really affect the musical memory that they remain intact same with poetry it's kind of two really weird things like you'll find people who can't remember their wife and can't even remember their own name can just recount poems if they've learned them and sing along to songs and um and it's beautiful to watch and and when we get them into that stimulated state inviting them to maybe come and do hygiene care in the somebody who is much more aware of where they are in space and time they're much less likely to feel anxious and and scared and therefore you can actually engage and interact with them much more readily so so we created an app called vera and that's our first product which is designed for the carers of people living with dementia to be able to get this effect as easily as possible and do it as often as possible as well and and we see in a really advanced state that the carer is using the music when the person wakes up to help them get dressed and out of bed and get them moving they're using it to set the scene for for meals they're using it to to set the scene for washing and hygiene as i said um all these different things and even conversing and spending time with people because when these songs come up that they recognize they bring along beautiful memories and um and we can talk about those and relive them with the person and some of the most beautiful things i've seen in my work are when the family members are hearing memories for the first time that the songs have triggered and they're like oh we didn't even know about that you know and that's such a beautiful thing to get when you know your family member often at that stage can't even remember who you are um so so yeah that hopefully gives you a bit of a summary of the journey so far and what we're trying to do well and we're going to get into it a little bit more but i truly wish you guys had been around when my mom was still alive i had talked to a musician he was also a singer and we we talked about my struggle of finding music that my mom connected to i tried you know the era that she was in high school and maybe music that i remembered being played in the home when i was a kid although i think most of that was my dad and it just he suggested this one past guest he's like well you'll probably have to go through a hundred songs to find you know five to ten and i was like i can't even come up with a hundred songs that seem to be even close so that was the first struggle i did have a little success when i i thought back to my childhood and what my grandmother played when we were at her house i figured if i could remember it then maybe it would work with my mom and it it had it was better than the previous attempts but it was it was so frustrating and so i didn't get what you were talking about just a moment ago so i gave up but yeah you guys i think have solved that problem to some degree and the other challenges i know when she was living in the care home they didn't i don't think they played the right era of music now my mom was on the younger end they did have residents there that were probably 20 25 years older than my mom my mom died at 77 so you know it wasn't too terribly difficult to be 20 years older than her 15 years older and so i don't think she connected to any of that but in getting ready for this talk i was telling my husband i think that tomorrow's guest is from australia that'll be interesting and we were talking about the music and he's like well mom really loved big band and i'm like yeah she did but that's not necessarily from her era it's not the era that i would have picked yeah but then when he said that i was like why didn't i try that or did i try that so why don't you tell us how the app makes all of that easier absolutely i i think firstly i'd love to say that playing any music is great like music is absorbed by the brain it comes into our ears actually it has to cross the hemispheres and then there's about five or six different parts of the brain that have to work in concert to interpret what we perceive as music it's not just you know hearing a sound and making a quick response um it's so a bit of a brain workout and it's why we generally feel quite pleasurable when we're hearing something especially if we like it of course there's taste and we'll get get into that in a second but but first and foremost even if you don't know exactly what to play playing something is better than nothing generally and then um the second thing i wanted to sort of say first is that that's what music and memory started to do like decades ago so they've been going around with um volunteers and musicologists and trying to do exactly what you were doing them manually getting to know the person researching them working out where they lived and then what songs might have been big in that location at that time when their musical taste was forming and generally the the kind of key age you want to try to get back to is 15 through to 35 now the problem with 15 through to 35 for someone like yourself is you probably if you were alive you probably were for a little bit you weren't really old enough to remember much and most of your mom's music experience that you would have been um in knowledge of was when she was a parent and she'd been playing music probably for you and um and also that gets into a very different time where we started to get um moved away from records into cassettes and things like that if we go back into when your mom would have been 15 through to 35 there's a chance she might have had some records at home to play for herself but i would hazard a guess that most of what she did here came through the radio and either that or it was what she was exposed to in the town that she grew up and so what we do is we analyze some really simple bits of information so where was the person born where did they live when they grew up from 15 through 35 and you can put multiple countries multiple places because obviously not everyone stays in one place um what languages do they speak because that can be really interesting and um and then from there with that information we actually can build a pretty good starting point of looking at what was popular either on the charts we could look at what was popular from touring bands we could look at what was popular from radio plays and we've created a massive database that syncs up all of that information attached to every song from the universal music library which is the world's biggest music library um and it's got millions of songs so that's that's our secret sauce in the back background that has taken us um a huge amount of technology to build it actually takes AI to technology to listen to the song and to decide if it's going first of all if it's going to be relaxing or energizing or you know what what kind of emotional response will the song elicit that's the first thing we work out and then the AIs are also scraping the internet looking for that other information about popularity all the time and building up richer and richer strings so then when we get to those questions I asked um in the onboarding which are where was the person born when were they born and where did they grow up we can very quickly understand what were the popular songs around them in that place during those years and then if we know we ask do they have any favorite genres do they love classical or blues or reggae or rock and do they have any favorite artists sadly we don't often get that information if the family aren't involved and quite often in the residential aged care settings they're not and so that's a real shame but as I said as a starting point anyway we'll have a collection of songs which are separated into three stations one is to help that person relax another is to help that person get energized and motivated to get up and move and then a third one is to help that person reminisce and and find their own memories and they get presented from just those basic questions and then you've got a thumbs up and a thumbs down of course so that if a song creates a really great reaction the person knows the words and they're clapping along we hit like and if we want to we can also leave a little note and say oh they loved it they were clapping along it reminded them of their wedding day whatever it may be and we can save that song and every time we do that it gets pulled into the playlist so we can go back to those songs we know they know we know they love and we collect those over time but we're constantly trying to find more through the energize and relax playlists as well which are um pushing forward new songs so with that we tend to find that we we get about 50 to 75 percent hit rate um in the first go and then we're refining over time but but it really is simple it's just understanding the music that was really popular around that person in that stage of their life um but to do that because we've got customers who were born in china we've got customers who were born in japan in italy in france in yugoslavia you never all over the world so we've had to do this globally and look at this popularity metric across all genres all songs and all places and that's been really the hard part but now that we have that the the experience is simple and easy my mom might have been a little easier she was born in northern california lived her whole life in northern california not all the same town but the same region basically the san francis the greater san francisco bay area perfect i'm trying to remember yeah nope never lived anywhere else so but i'm i'm as you're talking i'm remembering stories so my maternal grandfather was an army chef during world war ii he had damaged his trigger finger with a um a saw i don't know what the it's not maybe it was a hacksaw um it didn't stop him from hunting but it stopped him from being shipped overseas my grandfather could open the fridge and most people would open the refrigerator and say oh there's nothing really much to eat in here and he could whip out the best sandwiches you'd be like i didn't see that tomato where'd you pull that tomato out of and i have inherited that so obviously he his family also owned a restaurant and a bakery so that that comes up through the genetics i'm assuming but when he was not home my mom would run up to other soldiers and and go daddy daddy so the as we were talking earlier you know my husband was like oh she your mom liked big band music which not wasn't necessarily her era um she graduated from high school in 1960 so 15 to 35 would have been um i should probably use the calculator for this math but she would so been 1960 like 1957 through i'm not sure when she was 35 she was born in 1943 i can't do math that fast in my head that's um 1958 should we start and then we're looking another 20 years so 58 to um 78.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 288 - From Stress Relief to Joyful Moments: The Many Roles of Music in Caregiving
"The music is always changing so some songs are triggering a memory and others maybe they're just tapping along to and so it's probably the same you could experience this for yourself if you just played a a set list of songs from an era gone by songs you haven't heard in 10 or 20 years some of them are going to make you pick up and go oh this yeah i remember this one and some of them will make you sing along but others you might just kind of enjoy in the background and um and so that's kind of what's happening it's the amount of stimulation is completely personal and experiences like Roy's are unfortunately not that common they happen i'd say five to ten percent of the time um but for everybody we see lifts in mood improvements in sleep um and and those a reduction in those things like anxiety and aggravation and so on music can uniquely transport individuals with dementia to specific moments in their past eliciting reminiscence and triggering positive emotions it can reduce anxiety and agitation creating a calming and soothing environment caregivers often use personalized playlists incorporating songs from the individual's youth or culturally significant music to promote engagement and spark memories but what if you can't find the right music to connect with your loved one that was my situation which made me the ideal person to chat with steven hunt of vera an app that helps you find the specific pieces of music that will likely invoke all of the positive benefits that i just listed welcome to fading memories the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia i'm your host jennifer finke my mom had alzheimer's for 20 years and when i went looking for answers i had to start a podcast to find them join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving through personal stories expert interviews and practical advice we'll explore effective communication strategies stress management techniques and ways to cope with the emotional journey this podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment let's share our experiences find solace and discover the strength within us get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with fading memories if you're looking for additional advice be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter it's brief gives you great advice you can read it in less than five minutes and you know where to find the link in the website on the show notes we're working on subscriber only information and specials so you're not going to want to miss out unfortunately it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society with modern technology scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before americans over the age of 65 especially those living with alzheimer's and dementia are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week that's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones even worse nearly 10 of these calls have no caller id making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens you need imp imp offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams imp only allows wanted callers to ring through stopped our 100 of the spam scam political fundraising debt collection and survey calls before a single ring traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry don't wait until it's too late protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimp as in paul .com also the link is in the show notes now on with our show thanks for joining me again fading memories listeners you know i always appreciate your time in your ears i have today my first australian guest they are recording from the it's kind of exciting to talk to somebody on the whole other side of the world with me is stephen hunt he is the co -founder of music health it's an app that is designed for many mental health purposes but it's also got a connection for those of us taking care of a loved one with dementia so thanks for joining me stephen do you go by steve or stephen uh steve okay stick with that jennifer a little zoom box says steven so so tell me about yourself before we were before i hit record you were giving me the details on your family history of lovely diseases like mine so start wherever you'd like to start with yeah well i'd like to start with um so music health as a as a company we started it with a mission to reintegrate music into health care and the premise here is that if you look at any ancient human civilization whether it be the aztecs the incas or the indigenous people of australia they all use music to heal and so this has been going back over 40 000 years in fact the indigenous people of australia used one of these it's the oldest recorded form of music therapy which takes back 40 000 years and we've forgotten all about that because we invented pharmaceuticals and we just now prescribe a drug and hope that's going to fix the problem uh but we really see it out in our company that there's an opportunity to reintegrate music into health care very broadly and we're starting with dementia because in than any pharmaceutical and as we know most pharmaceuticals aren't really making any difference with dementia we're nowhere near a cure nothing's really cutting through we're kind of just treating little symptoms here and there and and often the people that we start to work with have this massive cocktail of drugs they're on that are trying to compensate for each other's side effects and it's just their brains are even more scrambled um so but we've seen with music that it can completely transform them and i guess what drew me to this is as you said a personal connection my grandfather experienced alzheimer's disease when i was in my teens and i was watched him go through that progression with my grandmother who was caring for him and as i'm sure everybody who listens to this would know that's really heartbreaking for anybody to experience and incredibly difficult um but i was a musician as you can see i've got a few instruments behind me and um and i used to play music and it used to soothe him and kind of change and transform him and at the time i had no idea why i didn't know the science of it but but anyway but my grandmother also developed dementia but lived to the age of 100 so i think she was entitled to lose a few memories there um and um and yeah and i i was working in the music industry and a good friend of mine who was a who's now my co -founder nick um came to me one day with the film alive inside and i don't know have you ever seen it um i haven't seen it but i actually did an episode about it with a gentleman that was involved amazing so it's if you don't want to watch the whole thing which i do highly recommend bring the tissues um but if you don't have time even just going on youtube you can watch a few short clips and you'll get the idea um but that film was demonstrating the music and memory program which um which is incredible and that inspired us so what you what you see is this transformative effect of someone who is experiencing dementia is quite lost in space and time they don't know where they are um they don't know who their carers are they're probably feeling a little afraid and and that fear can manifest into either you know regretting regressing sorry into anxiety and depression or expressing in a much more aggressive and agitated manner and and neither of those are good um but both are very difficult to manage for carer and when they play music to these people that is from their past that's personally significant to them they become alive and hence the name of the movie it it quickens and they they seem to come back they seem to get a better use of their faculties they can move their body they can talk they can swallow and eat um and they can remember faces much more readily because what's happening is the music is stimulating their long -term memory and for some reason alzheimer's and dementia doesn't really affect the musical memory that they remain intact same with poetry it's kind of two really weird things like you'll find people who can't remember their wife and can't even remember their own name can just recount poems if they've learned them and sing along to songs and um and it's beautiful to watch and and when we get them into that stimulated state inviting them to maybe come and do hygiene care in the somebody who is much more aware of where they are in space and time they're much less likely to feel anxious and and scared and therefore you can actually engage and interact with them much more readily so so we created an app called vera and that's our first product which is designed for the carers of people living with dementia to be able to get this effect as easily as possible and do it as often as possible as well and and we see in a really advanced state that the carer is using the music when the person wakes up to help them get dressed and out of bed and get them moving they're using it to set the scene for for meals they're using it to to set the scene for washing and hygiene as i said um all these different things and even conversing and spending time with people because when these songs come up that they recognize they bring along beautiful memories and um and we can talk about those and relive them with the person and some of the most beautiful things i've seen in my work are when the family members are hearing memories for the first time that the songs have triggered and they're like oh we didn't even know about that you know and that's such a beautiful thing to get when you know your family member often at that stage can't even remember who you are um so so yeah that hopefully gives you a bit of a summary of the journey so far and what we're trying to do well and we're going to get into it a little bit more but i truly wish you guys had been around when my mom was still alive i had talked to a musician he was also a singer and we we talked about my struggle of finding music that my mom connected to i tried you know the era that she was in high school and maybe music that i remembered being played in the home when i was a kid although i think most of that was my dad and it just he suggested this one past guest he's like well you'll probably have to go through a hundred songs to find you know five to ten and i was like i can't even come up with a hundred songs that seem to be even close so that was the first struggle i did have a little success when i i thought back to my childhood and what my grandmother played when we were at her house i figured if i could remember it then maybe it would work with my mom and it it had it was better than the previous attempts but it was it was so frustrating and so i didn't get what you were talking about just a moment ago so i gave up but yeah you guys i think have solved that problem to some degree and the other challenges i know when she was living in the care home they didn't i don't think they played the right era of music now my mom was on the younger end they did have residents there that were probably 20 25 years older than my mom my mom died at 77 so you know it wasn't too terribly difficult to be 20 years older than her 15 years older and so i don't think she connected to any of that but in getting ready for this talk i was telling my husband i think that tomorrow's guest is from australia that'll be interesting and we were talking about the music and he's like well mom really loved big band and i'm like yeah she did but that's not necessarily from her era it's not the era that i would have picked yeah but then when he said that i was like why didn't i try that or did i try that so why don't you tell us how the app makes all of that easier absolutely i i think firstly i'd love to say that playing any music is great like music is absorbed by the brain it comes into our ears actually it has to cross the hemispheres and then there's about five or six different parts of the brain that have to work in concert to interpret what we perceive as music it's not just you know hearing a sound and making a quick response um it's so a bit of a brain workout and it's why we generally feel quite pleasurable when we're hearing something especially if we like it of course there's taste and we'll get get into that in a second but but first and foremost even if you don't know exactly what to play playing something is better than nothing generally and then um the second thing i wanted to sort of say first is that that's what music and memory started to do like decades ago so they've been going around with um volunteers and musicologists and trying to do exactly what you were doing them manually getting to know the person researching them working out where they lived and then what songs might have been big in that location at that time when their musical taste was forming and generally the the kind of key age you want to try to get back to is 15 through to 35 now the problem with 15 through to 35 for someone like yourself is you probably if you were alive you probably were for a little bit you weren't really old enough to remember much and most of your mom's music experience that you would have been um in knowledge of was when she was a parent and she'd been playing music probably for you and um and also that gets into a very different time where we started to get um moved away from records into cassettes and things like that if we go back into when your mom would have been 15 through to 35 there's a chance she might have had some records at home to play for herself but i would hazard a guess that most of what she did here came through the radio and either that or it was what she was exposed to in the town that she grew up and so what we do is we analyze some really simple bits of information so where was the person born where did they live when they grew up from 15 through 35 and you can put multiple countries multiple places because obviously not everyone stays in one place um what languages do they speak because that can be really interesting and um and then from there with that information we actually can build a pretty good starting point of looking at what was popular either on the charts we could look at what was popular from touring bands we could look at what was popular from radio plays and we've created a massive database that syncs up all of that information attached to every song from the universal music library which is the world's biggest music library um and it's got millions of songs so that's that's our secret sauce in the back background that has taken us um a huge amount of technology to build it actually takes AI to technology to listen to the song and to decide if it's going first of all if it's going to be relaxing or energizing or you know what what kind of emotional response will the song elicit that's the first thing we work out and then the AIs are also scraping the internet looking for that other information about popularity all the time and building up richer and richer strings so then when we get to those questions I asked um in the onboarding which are where was the person born when were they born and where did they grow up we can very quickly understand what were the popular songs around them in that place during those years and then if we know we ask do they have any favorite genres do they love classical or blues or reggae or rock and do they have any favorite artists sadly we don't often get that information if the family aren't involved and quite often in the residential aged care settings they're not and so that's a real shame but as I said as a starting point anyway we'll have a collection of songs which are separated into three stations one is to help that person relax another is to help that person get energized and motivated to get up and move and then a third one is to help that person reminisce and and find their own memories and they get presented from just those basic questions and then you've got a thumbs up and a thumbs down of course so that if a song creates a really great reaction the person knows the words and they're clapping along we hit like and if we want to we can also leave a little note and say oh they loved it they were clapping along it reminded them of their wedding day whatever it may be and we can save that song and every time we do that it gets pulled into the playlist so we can go back to those songs we know they know we know they love and we collect those over time but we're constantly trying to find more through the energize and relax playlists as well which are um pushing forward new songs so with that we tend to find that we we get about 50 to 75 percent hit rate um in the first go and then we're refining over time but but it really is simple it's just understanding the music that was really popular around that person in that stage of their life um but to do that because we've got customers who were born in china we've got customers who were born in japan in italy in france in yugoslavia you never all over the world so we've had to do this globally and look at this popularity metric across all genres all songs and all places and that's been really the hard part but now that we have that the the experience is simple and easy my mom might have been a little easier she was born in northern california lived her whole life in northern california not all the same town but the same region basically the san francis the greater san francisco bay area perfect i'm trying to remember yeah nope never lived anywhere else so but i'm i'm as you're talking i'm remembering stories so my maternal grandfather was an army chef during world war ii he had damaged his trigger finger with a um a saw i don't know what the it's not maybe it was a hacksaw um it didn't stop him from hunting but it stopped him from being shipped overseas my grandfather could open the fridge and most people would open the refrigerator and say oh there's nothing really much to eat in here and he could whip out the best sandwiches you'd be like i didn't see that tomato where'd you pull that tomato out of and i have inherited that so obviously he his family also owned a restaurant and a bakery so that that comes up through the genetics i'm assuming but when he was not home my mom would run up to other soldiers and and go daddy daddy so the as we were talking earlier you know my husband was like oh she your mom liked big band music which not wasn't necessarily her era um she graduated from high school in 1960 so 15 to 35 would have been um i should probably use the calculator for this math but she would so been 1960 like 1957 through i'm not sure when she was 35 she was born in 1943 i can't do math that fast in my head that's um 1958 should we start and then we're looking another 20 years so 58 to um 78.
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"A symphony of love and loss, an ocean of memories. Just a day after her birthday, we found ourselves basking in the golden sun, the ocean waves singing a distant lullaby as we share an ice cream in a city by the sea. It was in this moment of tenderness that she revealed the secrets of her past, a time when this very place was her sanctuary as a little girl. Her words flowed like a gentle stream, and as I listened, I struggled to hold back the tears. On the precipice of a new chapter in our lives, I realized how cherished our time had been together, a bond that had flourished for eight years. The oceanside city held precious memories for her that I had unwittingly helped reignite. How could I have known that this would be our final curtain call, that our lives were destined to diverge along separate paths? The weight of this knowledge was shocking yet overshadowed by heartless figures and merciless fate. They brought insidious accusations, striking our intertwined hearts with a torrent of pain so deep that, six years later, my only solace is the hope that she has found happiness, a happiness that she deserves. These individuals orchestrated a cruel symphony, falsely accusing me of a crime and placing the blame on her beautiful, innocent soul. They sought to destroy our love, and even dared to question my past work with Interpol a fact that had been indisputably documented and later verified. The pain they left in their wake was agonizing, but the pain I caused her broke me in ways I had never thought possible. Yet despite the darkest hours, there remains a beacon of hope. Through the storms and anguish, I find inspiration in the resilience of her spirit, her unwavering love, and her radiant heart. And so I dedicate my own resilience to her, the woman who taught me to find beauty in the most trying times. This story, this symphony of love and loss, serves as a reminder that life's trials and that there exists within us an unbroken genius, an inner strength torn from the ashes of grave adversity. Embrace that strength, face the storms, and dare to rise above them. For at the end of our journey, our tears will forge a future of hope and redemption, a brighter world shaped by love and resilience.
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"1 symphony A of love and loss, an ocean of memories. Just a day after her birthday, we found ourselves basking in the golden sun, the ocean waves, singing a distant lullaby as we share an ice cream in a city by the sea. It was in this moment of tenderness that she revealed the secrets of her past, a time when this very place was her sanctuary as a little girl. Her words flowed like a gentle stream, and as I listened, I struggled to hold back the tears. On the precipice of a new chapter in our lives, I realized how cherished our time had been together, a bond that had flourished for eight years. The oceanside city held precious memories for her that I had unwittingly helped reignite. How could I have known that this would be our final curtain call, that our lives were destined to diverge along separate paths? The weight of this knowledge was shocking yet overshadowed by heartless figures and merciless fate. They brought insidious accusations, striking our intertwined hearts with a torrent of pain so deep that, six years later, my only solace is the hope that she has found happiness, a happiness that she deserves. These individuals orchestrated a cruel symphony, falsely accusing me of a crime and placing the blame on her beautiful, innocent soul. They sought to destroy our love, and even dared to question my past work with Interpol a fact that had been indisputably documented and later verified. The pain they left in their wake was agonizing, but the pain I caused her broke me in ways I had never thought possible. Yet despite the darkest hours, there remains a beacon of hope. Through the storms and anguish, I find inspiration in the resilience of her spirit, her unwavering love, and her radiant heart. And so I dedicate my own resilience to her, the woman who taught me to find beauty in the most trying times. This story, this symphony of love and loss, serves as a reminder that life's trials and tribulations can leave us devastated, but that there exists within us an unbroken genius, an inner strength born from the ashes of grave adversity. Embrace that strength, face the storms, and dare to rise above them. For at the end of our journey, our tears will forge a future of hope and redemption, a brighter world shaped by love and resilience.
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Alberto's "Login to Hell: The Final edition"
"Log In to Hell, the final edition by Alberto Daniel Hill stands as a powerful testament to his journey through adversity, pain, and redemption. It s a reflection of numerous, intertwining stories from Hill's life, a narrative of a love intertwined with his tribulations, to an outward investigation of injustice in his professional domain. Beginning with a glimpse into the precious moments he shared with a loved one, Alberto recounts a passage of time marked by love, tenderness, and enduring camaraderie. However, this idyllic interlude is abruptly marred when Alberto and his partner get engulfed in a storm of accusations from enigmatic figures. Alberto then delves into his unjust arrest and accusation, underscoring his professional integrity with a reminder of his past work with Interpol. The saga, while heart -wrenching, also serves as the crucible where the resilience of his spirit emerges, symbolizing unwavering hope and love. Delving into the underbelly of the hacker's world, beyond codes and firewalls, Alberto's narrative further emphasizes human endurance and transformation through trials. He highlights his journey as evidence of an individual's power to rise from the ashes while harnessing the latent fortitude within, painting a compelling picture of resilience, redemption, and unwavering hope. In a more abstract arc, Alberto hints at an improbable, intertwined destiny shared with Patricia Madrid, a journalist, and Raoul Sendik, the former vice president of Uruguay, building mystery and intrigue. He concludes his post by underscoring the strength to transform calamity into a catalyst. Despite everything, Alberto emerged as a beacon of resilience, inspiring others while navigating their individual adversities. In essence, Alberto's log into hell, the final edition serves not only as a potent recounting of his trials but stands as an inspiring message of resilience, showcasing the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity.
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"Login to Hell is a captivating narrative written by Alberto Daniel Hill and published in 2020. The book offers a gripping account of Hill's personal experiences as the first hacker to serve time in prison in Uruguay. This novel -like account merges the worlds of cybersecurity, legal complexities, and human resilience. Each page unravels more of Hill's journey, giving readers a unique perspective on information security, computer forensics, and legal hurdles in the cyber realm. Dressed in the compelling clothing of reality, Login to Hell is a nuanced portrayal of what happens when good faith collides with the legal system. It is a vivid illustration of an individual prosecuted for a crime which he insists he didn't commit. Moreover, the author's exploration of his experiences and the aftermath serves as a catalyst for change. The book stands as a rallying cry to prevent others from experiencing similar issues. Note that although primarily written in English, there may be some places where readers may wish for more detail, but it's these very intricacies that make the book even more intriguing, weaving a tale that's both personal and universally resonant. In summary, Login to Hell by Alberto Daniel Hill is not just a book, it's an educational saga, a call for legal reform, and a testament to the indomitable human spirit in the face of adversity. Within the hallowed pages of a story belonging to a world beyond our own, we find a tale interrupted, a journey stretching far beyond the horizon, into the realms of darkness and redemption. This tale, a fragment of a larger story, was etched in words and woven in emotion while a tumultuous battle was waged behind the scenes, a criminal case. Alas, this tale would leave the seekers of truth gasping for breath as they inched towards the precipice only to be denied the satisfaction of an ending. The premature conclusion left an insatiable hunger for closure, a yearning to unravel the entirety of the soul -stirring saga. In the gentle embrace of time, the tides have shifted. No longer shall these parchments bear only a testament of a fragment, for a new dawn emerges, one that beholds an unparalleled edition of the chronicle, the complete story from inception to culmination. The shadows of uncertainty disperse as the illuminating light of closure expands, painting the uncharted boundaries of our hearts with echoes of courage and resilience. This edition, a treasure chest laden with emotional gold, pulsating with the very essence of human strength and determination, shall chronicle the trials and triumphs of the protagonist. Every high, every low shall be enshrined in the minds of those who venture beyond the visage into the depths of the narrative, seeking solace in the depiction of sheer perseverance, of survival against all odds. Fragments of despair and glimmers of hope will meld in seamless harmony, as the reader embarks on a journey that transcends ink and paper, life's challenges, and the boundaries of human will. Prepare to witness an emotionally charged, awe -inspiring tale told for the first time in its entirety, forging a bond between reality and the ethereal, offering comfort and inspiration to those who have braved the treacherous passage through adversity, and triumphed. Embrace this new edition, a testament to the sheer power of storytelling. Through the darkness and light, witness the metamorphosis of a fragmented tale into a complete chronicle, as a beacon illuminating the path toward the unbroken genius within us. With each page, leave behind the constraints of the known world and venture into the sanctum of truth, realization, and self -discovery, inspiring others to find their own path through the labyrinth of life, etching their names upon the annals of the resilient heart, one story at a time.
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"Login to Hell is a captivating narrative written by Alberto Daniel Hill and published in 2020. The book offers a gripping account of Hill's personal experiences as the first hacker to serve time in prison in Uruguay. This novel -like account merges the worlds of cybersecurity, legal complexities, and human resilience. Each page unravels more of Hill's journey, giving readers a unique perspective on information security, computer forensics, and legal hurdles in the cyber realm. Dressed in the compelling clothing of reality, Login to Hell is a nuanced portrayal of what happens when good faith collides with the legal system. It is a vivid illustration of an individual prosecuted for a crime which he insists he didn't commit. Moreover, the author's exploration of his experiences and the aftermath serves as a catalyst for change. The book stands as a rallying cry to prevent others from experiencing similar issues. Note that although primarily written in English, there may be some places where readers may wish for more detail, but it's these very intricacies that make the book even more intriguing, weaving a tale that's both personal and universally resonant. In summary, Login to Hell by Alberto Daniel Hill is not just a book, it's an educational saga, a call for legal reform, and a testament to the indomitable human spirit in the face of adversity. Within the hallowed pages of a story belonging to a world beyond our own, we find a tale interrupted, a journey stretching far beyond the horizon, into the realms of darkness and redemption. This tale, a fragment of a larger story, was etched in words and woven in emotion while a tumultuous battle was waged behind the scenes, a criminal case. Alas, this tale would leave the seekers of truth gasping for breath as they inched towards the precipice only to be denied the satisfaction of an ending. The premature conclusion left an insatiable hunger for closure, a yearning to unravel the entirety of the soul -stirring saga. In the gentle embrace of time, the tides have shifted. No longer shall these parchments bear only a testament of a fragment, for a new dawn emerges, one that beholds an unparalleled edition of the chronicle, the complete story from inception to culmination. The shadows of uncertainty disperse as the illuminating light of closure expands, painting the uncharted boundaries of our hearts with echoes of courage and resilience. This edition, a treasure chest laden with emotional gold, pulsating with the very essence of human strength and determination, shall chronicle the trials and triumphs of the protagonist. Every high, every low shall be enshrined in the minds of those who venture beyond the visage into the depths of the narrative, seeking solace in the depiction of sheer perseverance, of survival against all odds. Fragments of despair and glimmers of hope will meld in seamless harmony, as the reader embarks on a journey that transcends ink and paper, life's challenges, and the boundaries of human will. Prepare to witness an emotionally charged, awe -inspiring tale told for the first time in its entirety, forging a bond between reality and the ethereal, offering comfort and inspiration to those who have braved the treacherous passage through adversity, and triumphed. Embrace this new edition, a testament to the sheer power of storytelling. Through the darkness and light, witness the metamorphosis of a fragmented tale into a complete chronicle, as a beacon illuminating the path toward the unbroken genius within us. With each page, leave behind the constraints of the known world and venture into the sanctum of truth, realization, and self -discovery, inspiring others to find their own path through the labyrinth of life, etching their names upon the annals of the resilient heart, one story at a time.
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Rising Above the Storm: Weathering the Siege of Toxicity and Attacks on Twitter
"Rising above the storm, weathering the siege of toxicity and attacks on Twitter. An unrelenting tempest, the biting winds cut into every fiber of our being, as we traverse the vast digital landscape that is Twitter. In this realm, a simple tap on the screen can unleash an avalanche of toxicity, hubs of hatred, and rings of relentless malice. So how does one find solace amidst the chaos? In the valleys of web -based discourse, we may encounter forces that darken our paths and strike at the core of our fortitude. Yet, amidst these embattled paths, there lies untapped strength, the potential to transform ourselves into digital warriors of calm amidst a maelstrom of turmoil. Unearthing the beacon of serenity, in the midst of a cyber onslaught we often seek refuge in counterattacks and aggressive reactions, a response born of instinct. However, to rise above these challenges and emerge unscathed, we must develop a different kind of arsenal. Embrace the power of detachment. Acknowledging the ephemeral, shifting nature of digital platforms bestows upon us the clarity to see beyond the venomous words, taking a step back from the fray may unlock the tranquility essential to weather this storm. Cultivate a digital sanctuary. A carefully curated haven of inspiring thoughts, genuine connections, and heartening content can serve as a bulwark against the encroaching storm. Foster relationships with like -minded souls who fuel your strength and remind you why you embarked on this journey. Raise your voice for good. In the face of crushing negativity dare to rise above and speak up for issues close to your heart. By channeling your energy into positivity and illuminating causes that matter, you become a beacon of hope, inspiring others to do the same. The warrior's mantle, turning adversity into growth. In the pursuit of peace, we must don the warrior's armor, shielding our hearts from the tumult while maintaining focus on our purpose. Embodying the following values will foster resilience and empower us to reshape our experience. Embody empathy. In recognizing the shared humanity within every tweet, we allow ourselves the chance to understand and respond with compassion, diffusing the situation, and leaving a lasting impact. Don the armor of mindfulness. By practicing conscious reflection, we can weed out unconscious biases and harmful beliefs, strengthening our resolve to become champions of constructive dialogue. Wielding the sword of accountability, to hold ourselves and others responsible for the words uttered, we take a stance against hate and contribute to fostering an environment of respect and unity. The transcendent journey, from survivor to trailblazer, twitter, for all its challenges and tribulations, also presents a unique opportunity, the chance to rewrite the narrative of our digital lives. Navigating the tempest with grit and determination, we become unshakable beacons of hope and examples to those who seek solace amidst the chaos. In this grand odyssey, we learn to find beauty in the cacophony inspiration amidst the tribulations, and growth in the face of adversity. We forge onwards carving pathways through the storm, lighting fires of inspiration and empowerment for all who follow in our footsteps. This is not a story of surviving twitter, this is a tale of transcending it, a fable of turning adversity into a hallowed legacy.
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"Beacon plumbing sports test gets the mariners going for two straight wins over the Angels in Anaheim. We're in the middle of the second inning right now. Mariners are up five to one. Bill Swart says the roster Dales are flying on Lake Washington, each one unlimited hydroplanes testing qualifying for Sunday's Seafair finale. For the first time in 38 years, the winner gets the Gold Cup. Dustin Eccles from Monroe piloted the U 91 boat to the fastest speed of 152 miles an hour. Last weekend's Tri City's winner Corey Peabody right behind Northwest sports fans digesting sour news. Washington and Oregon athletic departments moving from the Pac -12 to the Big Ten. In a news release today, UW President Ana Mari Cauce said it was her top priority quote to do what's best for the student athletes in the university. CBS Sports college football reporter Chip Patterson says the Pac -12 media rights deal relying on Apple streaming pushed the Huskies and Ducks to move on. Now with the Pac -12 unable to come to an agreement on its new media rights deal they've got an opportunity to get a school without having to worry about any kind of exit fee or any kind of buyout. So the Big Ten will eventually have 16 schools and Seattle Seahawks receiver Dee Eskridge draws a six -game NFL suspension for violating the league's conduct policy. Sports with Swartz at 40 10 and after the hour Northwest News Radio. Broadcast radio for over 100 years the best way deliver to your message to your customers. The radio's reach is so much more than broadcast. Today your business more has ways than ever to find your customers and Lotus Radio Seattle has your guide to success. Digital. Video. Online. Social. The tools you need to find your customers plus the expert guidance to make the most of them. Get started right now at SeattleRadioSales .com and grow your
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"Moss from the beacon plumbing sports desk let's start with some great news saints titan foster morrow announced his cancer is full in remission turning to baseball braves took down the guardians for their ninth straight win ronald de junior extended his hit streak to 14 games became the first player to reach 20 homers 40 stolen bases and 50 rbi before the all -star break joey vato snapped his 0 for 21 slump a with two -run homer in the fourth to lift the reds past the nationals dodgers placed lefty clayton kershaw on the 15 -day injury list with a shoulder issue timberwolves guard anthony edwards agreed to a five -year rookie max stenchon could become worth 260 million bucks the opening day of wimbledon is in books the four -time defending champion novak jokovic rolled to a victory in the first round on the women's side seven -seated coco gov upset by fellow american sophia kennan in a three -set thriller venus williams also knocked out that sports rhonda moss mbc news focus on the white house today for the fourth of july president biden spent the weekend in camp david but is slated to return to the white house tuesday for his third independence day celebration on the south lawn holding a barbecue and concert for military families this time next week president biden will be in london sitting down with king charles the third this will be the president's first meeting with charles since he was crowned king the president will also meet with the english prime minister and then head to lithuania for a nato summit abc's jay o 'brien ahead of her beijing trip to treasury secretary yellen met with china's u .s. ambassador the talks described as frank and doctor who spent four days meeting with chinese leaders to discuss a range of issues including the economic relationship between the two nations tensions between china and the u .s. have risen in recent months the treasury secretary's visit is expected to that show the lines of communication are still open abc's faith abube richard kantu abc news three black black and latino groups say harvard's consideration of legacies and donors in the admissions sets violates the civil acts right or civil rights act i should say mark mayfield reports a complaint filed monday with the u .s. department of education office for civil rights argues that giving preference to legacies and donors admits predominantly white students while excluding non white applicants the complaint comes just days after the supreme court ruled that using race when determining admissions unconstitutional effectively ending affirmative action i'm mark mayfield the oldest living tulsa race masker victim is having a memoir published today abc's chuck steam biola fletcher has traveled internationally and supported a lawsuit for reparations for the massacre by a white mob that destroyed the affluent tulsa oklahoma neighborhood called black wall street in nineteen twenty one when she was a child now a hundred nine her new memoirs titled don't let them bury my story she writes as her family fled she saw a white man murder a black man and they passed piles of dead bodies in the streets fletcher says watching the january sixth attack on the u .s. capital on tv traumatized her again chuck sievertsen abc news the international atomic energy agency has approved japan's controversial plan to release treated wastewater from the damaged fukushima power plant into the ocean the international atomic energy agency has said the impact that it believes it would have on fish on the sea on the water is actually negligible and then what he wants really is for the agency to actually have an ongoing presence during this process that's rebecca bunda reporting from the high performance homes traffic center here's kimmy klein well things are quiet on the freeways right now a lot of cities and towns are fourth having their of july parties and parades and other celebrations don't don't be surprised if you find some central roads in town shut down for today that incarnation in fact highway 203 is reportedly blocked off between east blanche street and morrison street for their celebrations you could see ruston way shut down in takoma today as well between point ruston and old town for their fourth of july parties i -5 getting between takoma and olympia a nice 30 minute drive in either direction we're just seeing some minor crowding seattle in north on i -5 from i -90 into the convention center and a little slow in evert as well on north on i -5 right around highway 2 and marine view drive over next northwest traffic at 12 24 and now let's check your forecast sponsored by northwest crawlspace services well more of
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"And electrical call Beacon today and save $50 on drain sewer cleaning repair just call 1 -800 -FREAKIN and stop freaking call on Beacon. Northwest News Times News Seattle's 6 mayor says he would have handled the process of recriminalizing drugs differently than the city council but he tells Northwest News Radio's Ryan Harris the state's new law won't mean targeting communities of color. Mayor Bruce Peril says he'd have preferred a better discussion in committee rather than taking the now rejected drug possession and public O 'Donnell says it's not that hard to come up with something that meets everyone's needs when I see two or three people huddle around tinfoil my first impulse is how can I help them but I have to safety from bus stops and in inside buses and in their neighborhoods so I asked Mayor Harold to address people's concerns the city that a ordinance or the new state law would mean a return to racist policing this fear war of on drugs going back is to not a war going to happen. Harold says he's already met with council member Andrew Lewis whose changed mind and lead to the measures failure and that he'll meet with other experts to come up with new policies he says he'll unveil in July just as the new state drug law takes effect Ryan Harris Northwest News Radio following the council's vote Seattle police officers guild president Mike Solon sent out a statement which reads in part the majority of the current city council does reflect not the community's views regarding our public safety crisis fueled by fentanyl like 2020 most of the council are still controlled by unreasonable activists who do not reflect Seattle's values and push extremists event agendas the vote reflects that reality and inmates at the Monroe Correctional Complex is filing suit against the Department of Corrections Jose Gomez alleging prison staff made a back injury he already had far worse when they slammed a cell door on him then last September while being transported in a wheelchair the suit claims driver a suddenly accelerated and his wheelchair tipped over backwards he injured his neck hit his head according to the Daily Herald other inmates at the Monroe complex have also alleged mistreatment and medical neglect a lot of turned businesses a card have only transactions the last few years but many argue that's discriminatory King County Council members have been considering the dilemma but this week put off a vote that would have required businesses to accept cash council member G .D. Colwell sponsored the measure to force businesses in unincorporated King County to accept cash for purchases up to $200 there are significant data that show that cashless businesses hurt communities of color seniors disabled persons but during a Tuesday meeting when a final vote was expected the Seattle Times reports some council members raise concerns saying they didn't have a solid understanding of the scale of the problem in King County and they costs worry about and safety issues that could come from requiring small businesses to accept cash so comes the two -week delay for further consideration businesses that have turned to cart -only transactions argue it keeps thieves away those in favor of the proposal argue many people do not have bank your access to credit cards Carleen Johnson Northwest News Radio inflation is hitting a lot of military families hard and making it tough for them to put food on the table food lifeline just hosted a military hunger Town Hall numbers from food lifeline show that nearly 40 ,000 Western Washington soldiers former soldiers and their families will receive some type of food assistance this year most military families don't qualify for SNAP have benefits something represent Maryland Strickland is working to change one of the things I'm sponsoring is
Ethereum Daily
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"Welcome to eat daily a daily briefing on the latest in Ethereum, the Ethereum Beacon chain suffers a finality incident developers pinned the issue to consensus layer clients, lighthouse notes remain unaffected, and prism into two issue a patch release. All this in more from eth daily starts right now. On May 11th at 8 13 p.m. UTC, the Ethereum Beacon chain failed to finalize at epoch two zero zero 5 5 two finality was restored roughly 20 minutes later without any intervention. The network suffered finality issues across three epochs and experienced validator participation as low as 40%. The issue was pinned to consensus layer clients, according to prism developer, Terence desal, prism nodes received attestations for older epochs where the block did not reflect the latest checkpoint in fork choice as a result prism nodes experienced high resource usage while attempting to catch up with the latest attestations. Prism users reported increased CPU load missed slot proposals out of memory errors and crashes. Terence said most consensus clients had similar issues with the exception of lighthouse, which uses a different design that filters and viable attestations. Since a high number of validators missed attestations due to an issue in consensus layer clients, a majority vote for a pair of checkpoints was not reached, causing blocks do not reach finality. According to rob plus, more than half of the validators who missed slot proposals during the incident were running a prism consensus layer client. Also noted that the a tester effectiveness across all clients started to degrade as soon as three hours prior to the first incident. Finalization is a state where transactions in a block can not be reverted without an attacker committing to losing at least one third of the total staked ether. Ethereum transactions have finality after validators attest in a timely manner to the correct head of the chain and to a pair of checkpoint blocks, a checkpoint occurs at the start of each epoch, participation from validators representing at least two thirds of all staked ether is required for a vote on a pair of checkpoints to be considered valid. Since a pair of checkpoints consists of two epochs and an epoch occurs every 6.4 minutes, Ethereum transactions typically finalize every 12.8 minutes. Finalization provides an economic guarantee that transactions will not be reverted finalization is not required for the network to remain live. In fact, Ethereum continued to process transactions during the un finalized state. The change is not paused and end users are not affected unless there is a block reorganization during an un finalized state that most recent blocks are not yet attested by the majority of validators when blocks are not finalized. There is a possibility that all blocks since the previous finalized blocks can be reorganized. The network remains in a state similar to Bitcoin and Ethereum proof of work where a block reorganization is possible. A second incident occurred on May 12th at epoch two zero zero 7 5 one the second incident lasted 8 epochs resulting in an inactivity leak. Finality has since been.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
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"45 Lawmakers on Beacon Hill are considering a bill that would revise enrollment requirements to allow more and more people disabilities to attend. College President Joe Biden is expected to meet with Senate Democrats today. We'll tell you why in just a moment. The Supreme Court is denying a petition to end the enforcement of Mask mandates on airplanes. A North Bridge man has been arrested on charges of breaking and entering a home while Children and family members were inside. He is facing the judge. Today. He's actually from Worcester. Senate Democrats are meeting with President Joe Biden today after reaching an agreement on a massive budget plan. Let's find out more from Tracy Pots. Democrats introduced $3.5 Trillion of spending they promised will be fully paid for Without taxing people who earn under $400,000. They call it human infrastructure. They are trying to lock down support for the plan, which includes expanding Medicare fighting climate change and investing in childcare and education. The bill will move forward without Republican support, but may not be voted on until sometime in the fall. In the meantime, President Biden is condemning Republican efforts to impose more restrictions on voting. Mr Biden, calling it the most significant test of our democracy democracy since a civil war CBS is at O Keefe reports more than a dozen states have already tightened their voting laws since the 2020 presidential election. The White House hopes the president's speech will jump start a push for new federal voting rights legislation. But the bills he wants passed can't clear the closely divided Senate unless it abolishes the filibuster. The president also directly addressed unfounded accusations embraced by former President Trump that Democrats stole last year's presidential election. The big lie is just that a big lie. The speech came as more than 50. Democratic State lawmakers left Texas in order to step debate on GOP elections. Law changes and over in Texas. The Republican controlled State House has voted to order law enforcement to retrieve the lawmakers from Washington. Although authorities have no jurisdiction outside of the state, and despite that protest from Democratic lawmakers, voting went ahead anyway in the Texas State Senate. Let's find out more from ABC like jokey from Washington, the Texas Senate overnight passing their version of an election bill. It calls for a ban on 24 hour polling locations and drive through voting efforts proven to increase turnout among minority voters. That bill, prompting over 50 Texas Democrats.
KOMO
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"Have to get to the beacon Plumbing sports desk. Eric Heights is in for Tom. The Tigers beat the Mariners six to last night and leave town with a sweep of the three game Syriza. It's the first Tiger Siri sweep in Seattle since April. 2006. Dams had nine hits against Tigers pitchers in the Syriza with 29 strikeouts. Now the Mariners are on the road for six games, starting with the three game Syria's in San Diego against the potteries Friday night. Then it's on to Oakland for three more games against the A's. The Seattle storm play the links tonight in Minneapolis forward Brianna Stewart says, Going into their third game of the WN BA season, the defending champs are still working for changes to their roster with such a new team, new dynamic. We're still trying to figure out you know what's our foundation? What's our schemes? Where's our baseline? I know where we're getting a few more pieces Pitkin Sadie's, and I hope that that continues to help us building and go forward Tip office five o'clock tonight for you to buy. Rescue softball team host three teams as part of an NC double regional set to begin tomorrow. They played Portland State Friday night Picture. Gabby Plane is one of three finalists for us A softball collegiate player of the year. She leads the nation and strikeouts with more than 300 as 29 wins, including 11 shut outs. Tim Tebow officially begins his NFL comeback He signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars as a tight end sports attendant. 40 minutes past the hour. I'm Eric Hynes. Com O noodles These times. 6 12 After nearly a year of waiting, the family of a Redmond woman still doesn't know why she was killed by police in a hail of gunfire. Internal documents obtained by Cuomo News revealed some new details in the case and camels. Jonathan Show has.
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"This time is sponsored by Beacon Plumbing, heating and electrical called Beacon today and say $50 on all electrical work. Just call 1 800 Freaking van Stop freaking called Beacon. Now. The forecast with Cuomo meteorologist Kristen Clark Great start to the week here today, mostly sunny by afternoon and high temperatures well into the sixties. Tuesday temperatures top 70 degrees in the afternoon. That trend will continue. The rest of this week. So a stretch of days in the 70 seer dry conditions, both upper level clouds at times made in the sunshine. Next opportunity for free lawn watering may not come into the weekend and at that the rain looks to be fairly light showers. Maybe some drizzle on Saturday and then against Sunday night and the Common Weather Center meteorologist Kristen Clark, Only 39 in Arlington this morning in Bremerton is 42. Degrees Olympia 48. And in Seattle, mostly sunny and 46 degrees. Come on news time 706, someone said to fires in the uterus district over the weekend. Shan we get more from comas Cara Custer Niche Liza restaurants that are already hurting by the pandemic. For one of them hit. This'll was the second fire. They've had this year alone. Scary to see this happen, your fire said on the outside of a three story building on the aft in the university district. Was damage inside of the structure and to the exterior estimated damages 150,000 the building home to several restaurants like noodle nation that sustained smoke damage, along with two stories of apartments, just above This'll apartment burnt. There's a lot of people sleeping over there, it had to be evacuated. Seattle Fire says The blaze was started. Behind the building. Embattled Seattle City Council.
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"The Beacon Plumbing sports desk. The Mariners look to shake off Last night's five free lost to Baltimore as the Amazon knows meat in the second game of the three Games series at T Mobile Park. GM's lead one Nothing going into the eighth inning before giving up five runs. They had only three hits total, including home runs by Tom Murphy and Mitch Hanniger. The next time the Husky football team meets on the practice field. It will be August at the start of fall camp. Spring practice concluded Saturday with a Purple gold game that Husky Stadium head coach Jimmy Lake says the scrimmage offers more benefits than putting the players into a game week situation. I think every single year there's a really good start having 9000 plus fans there and hopefully, you know next year and years to come. We just have more more fans to support and to show the country that football means a lot in the city of Seattle in the state of Washington and in the Northwest and on the West Coast and in the Pac 12 In the spring game, the purple team beat the gold 20 to 13, the Seahawks. Did another player to their roster today as part of the NFL's international player Pathway program They brought on Aaron Don core, a linebacker from Germany will stay on the roster through training camp. He's also played at Arkansas State, and you'd have women's soccer team plays second seed North Carolina tomorrow in the N C double A sweet 16 sports attendant 40 minutes past the hour Americans coma New Coming up traffic and weather Me. Me, Me, me, me, but also you the payroll fast forwards his favorite porn film. But that the powdered doughnut Mm. Okay. What's my line Three Only line I see here on the script is get options based on your budget with the name your price tool from progressive..
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"We switched to the Beacon Plumbing Sports desk. Here's combos. Bill Swartz, a tennis anyone grabbing a couple of rockets, hitting the ball back and forth one of the few safe activities during the pandemic, the United States Tennis Association. Says there were three million new players last year, a 44% increase over 2019 and new tennis racket sales were up nearly 40%, the first tennis grand Slam of the year. The Australian Open Now on day four women's one seed Ashleigh Barty and men's two seed Ruffin Adult cruised into round three Pac 12 basketball on a snowy Thursday night in the Evergreen State. Three and four. Washington Huskies at home against Conference leading USC and eight o'clock and Beasley Coliseum. Pullman, Kyle Smith and the W S U Cougars try to solve U C L A. We gotta keep Tiger out paint because he he really played well and he really is the Calisto all there everything they do offensively. Western Hockey League U S Division will drop the puck on a shortened season. March 19th Seattle Thunderbirds, Everett Silver Tips will play games exclusively against Portland, Spokane and the Tri Cities, No playoffs, and Still, no Spectators allowed Sports a 10 and 40 after the hour. Bill Schwartz come on in his come on news time. 6 12 looking for a way to show your love this Valentine's weekend. Bella Chaffee is the president and founder of Alexander's Hope, and she's here with an idea that gets you moving and helps others at the same time. Tell us about the Valentine's Day Dash. Bella Alexander's Hope local nonprofit is hosting their second annual Alexander's home, Valentine Ash. However, this year it is a little bit different due to covet that has gone virtual. So we're allowing participants from all over to run or walk there. Five K. Um, raise from anywhere over this upcoming weekend so participants can do the event on either the 13th or the 14. Every participant is getting a goodie bag filled with a long sleeve race T shirt. Alexander's help medal along with give aways from some of our sponsors, and then participants can also upload their photos and race results online for a chance to win some special prizes that will be giving away after the event. So are you saying people could do this anywhere they are and then just submit their results because you don't want them in a crowd setting? Yes, people can do it from anywhere. We have mostly, you know people in Washington, but there's been a handful of people that have signed up from California and Texas and all over and we shipped out there. They're goody bags, so this obviously benefits charity Alexander's hope and how does that benefit them and tell us about This nonprofit Yeah. So it benefits Alexander's hope our youth hurt screening program. So we advocate for organ donation Awareness s. We encourage people to sign up to become organ donors. And then with that we also partner with another local nonprofit called the Nick of Time Foundation. Where we Put on lifesaving use heart screening events these more typically once a month at a local high school where we would screen students. For like we do EKGs and echocardiograms and then teach the students CPR and how to operate in the 80 on Do you done Medical center? They would have the doctors on staff that would also be Helping out with the screenings. And so all funds raised from the Valentine's Day Dash will go towards our youth Heart screening program. Well, that's where the heart comes. And that's why it's perfect for Valentine's, isn't it? So how? How do people end up giving money? How did the donations come about? And how do they sign up and register? Yes, so you can sign up at Alexander's hope dot Warg, and once you go on the website, there's a Valentine's Day Dash tab up top. And you can learn more about the race there and you can also registered And then if you're wanting to donate more while you're registering, you could make a donation throughout your registration or if you just wanted to donate The organization and not register. There's a donate tab on our website as well. Bella Chaffee, the president, founder of Alexander's Hope, Good Luck to you this weekend. Thank you very much for being with us. Thank you. It's race right to traffic..
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"The Beacon Plumbing Sports desk. Washington Asking Football has some coaching changes. Here's Bill, you'd have lost defensive coordinator P. Quick Kowski to Steve Sarkisian's Texas program. Instead of spending a wheelbarrow full of money on a big name, Assistant Washington's Jimmy Lake juggled the duties of his assistant coaches. Promoting inside linebackers coach Bob Gregory to defensive coordinator analyst Rip Rohan takes on the defensive line and a longtime Husky Ekoko Malloy will coach the outside linebackers. You know, Of course we we lose, you know, years and years of coordinating experience, but we also have a lot of years and years of court experience still on the staff, Lake says. When you have success, other schools will try to get your best minds. Former Seahawks offensive lineman Chad Wheeler this morning entered not guilty pleas to charges of felony assault, domestic violence, unlawful imprisonment and resisting arrest. Wheeler is accused of choking his girlfriend in Kent, January. 23rd win or lose this Sunday. Super Bowl Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady says he'll consider playing past age 45. Buccaneers, a field goal underdog at home against Kansas City at age 40 Sue Bird will sign a free agent deal toe continue playing basketball for the Seattle storm. Sports updates a 10 and 40 after the hour Bill Swerts Comeau News. If all the talk of amateur traders making a bundle on game stock has you are Gamestop stock rather has you thinking About getting into the market. You're not alone. NBC's Rebecca Jarvis reports market mania after a group of small investors rallied around a few cast off stocks like Game Stop sending shares soaring 400% last week, some now cashing in I think of it as like something fun video and profitable at the same time, including 10 year old Jayden car two years ago, his mom bottom 10 Shares of Game Stop is a Kwanzaa gift. Back Then there were $6 each now he sold them for more than $3000 making quite a name for himself. In the process. I looked at myself today. I just saw a list of My name on different news networks and channels. Yeah, he was like Google. Me, Mama. Well, Jaden is moving on from Gamestop. Many others are actively trading..
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"Amazon has joined forces with Virginia Mason for a 2000 shot vaccine clinic at the Amazon Seventh Avenue facility in Seattle this Sunday morning, Virginia Mason chief Dr Gary Kaplan says people who've already registered for their wait list should watch for an invitation, and Dr Kaplan says they haven't forgotten about the second dose scheduled for their second child. Sunday before they leave, so it'll be one stop shopping make it is easiest possible. Thanks whether you have health insurance or not, it will not be charged for the vaccine. This announcement comes in a news conference where Governor Jay Inslee says he's had good discussions with lawmakers about getting financial and red relief for people and businesses. That includes an unemployment compensation bill that would blunt and nearly $1 billion increase in employers rates so they don't tank businesses as they try to recover. Ryan Harris Co. Moh news vaccine allocations for Maris State are increasing and they are ordered on separate schedules for 1st and 2nd dose is this is what we're learning from Assistant Health Secretary Michelle Roberts, who says they'll also give providers a few extra weeks on the new requirement. They used 95% of doses within a week there received the reason why it will take longer is because those first dose allocations were spread out over multiple weeks. And so we really need the second dose is to be given on that same schedule. Robert says they're working on building vaccination capacity to the 45,000 Day goal. But she says that means the state needs 300,000 doses a week to pull it off. We are getting closer with more than 235,000 combined 1st and 2nd dose is coming this week. But with the highest level of virus activity in Washington since the start of the pandemic, state health says we need to buckle down and do our part to slow the vaccine spread. Bungled software launch is partly to blame for Washington state's slow rollout of the covert vaccine. The program is called Prep MoD, and it is designed to coordinate appointments, notification and databases to track who has and has not been vaccinated providers were to use the software whenever those vaccines were administered. But according to the Seattle Times, the developer was a month late and delivering the program and there are problems integrating it with existing Health Department software. As a result, boxes of vaccine sat unused and the state has administered less than half the doses it has received. Jeff Pooja look come on. News of federal judges ruled that Amazon can keep the social media site parlor off its servers. Parlor has become popular with the far right as it has far less moderation of offensive, racist and threatening content after the January 6 riot at the U. S. Capitol. Companies began severing ties with the site, and this is after it was revealed. Many in the pro trump mob allegedly used parlor to plan in document. The attack parlor has said such moves threaten free speech. Come on his time, 9 10. Head over to the Beacon Plumbing sports desk. And first of all, we look at the cougar basketball score. Men played the Utah Utes tonight. Final score is in. They lost Utah Utes beat the coup 71 to 56. Notre Dame is guilty of recruiting violations in Seattle. Details from Kemal's Bill Schwartz, the NC double, I found a former Notre Dame football assistant had improper contact with a kid in a Seattle high school they fighting Irish program is now on one year probation has to pay a $5000 fine and cannot recruit any athlete from that Seattle high school through 2022. The Pac 12 conference, searching for a new commissioner as Larry Scott's run will end in June. During his 11 years at the helm, Scott negotiated a large TV rights deal but drew criticism for the lack of national exposure compared to the SEC and big 10. The pandemic continues. But Seattle Mariners expect to play a full 162 game schedule, which means a different approach for picture Marco Gonzalez little more volume on the arm this year and so I started a little bit earlier in the film program and have definitely tried to put on Um, some some muscle and definitely no carry me through this season. The guns I got left, He started just 11 games in the abbreviated 2020 season. Sports A 10 and 40 After the hour Bill Swerts come on news introducing TD Ameritrade's newest trading.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"And get them any easy ones, but whether it will advance to the championship game. I'm covering Fairchild. And I'm Susanna Palmer in the Bloomberg one of 61. Boston newsroom 46 degrees in Boston windy with rain ending late in the day high up near 50. Here are some of the stories we're watching. State capitals across the country are boarding up this weekend after the FBI warned of possible violent protests ahead of Inauguration Day in Boston. Plexiglass was hung on the first floor windows of the Massachusetts State House Friday night and extra layer of protection just in case somebody tries to break windows. John Papa Leo works on Beacon Hill. I'm a little worried. No one knows what's gonna happen. Inauguration there in the next couple of weeks, but It seems like they're getting ready and they're hopefully we'll be prepared. Corona viruses getting tackled at Gillette Stadium as the first mass vaccination site in the state is poised to administer thousands of shots a day with goals of no lines or wasted doses. Herald reports. Gillette Stadium has transformed into that mass vaccination site that anyone in the state convince it to get their shot. Once they become eligible and have made an appointment online at the C I C health website, But even with an appointment, you can't get a shot if there isn't one to give you Governor. Baker says Massachusetts would need more than one million doses of covered 19 vaccine to fully inoculate everybody in the first phase of his plan. Governor says there are about 660,000 people who qualify for a shot in the first phase. But the state has only received 400,000 vaccinations and no clear information about when and how much more will be coming. The basic message Um, from the from the federal government has been while we don't think you'll get any less, but there really hasn't been anything about anymore. Hey, Chris says the state is not holding any vaccinations and to his knowledge has not wasted any shots. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg Quick take powered by more than 2700, journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I'm Susanna Palmer, this is.
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"Beacon Plumbing sports desk. Here's Eric Kites. The Seahawks continued to look for the team's next offensive coordinator. The NFL network reports. Former Charger head coach Anthony Lynn has spoken to see Ox head coach Pete Carroll about the open job. Lynn says he's not decided what he wants to do next season. Round two of the NFL playoffs is this weekend two games tomorrow. First the Rams visit the Packers Rams quarterback Jared Goff says his thumb, which he had surgery on less than three weeks ago, is improving surgery on important part of your hand and just getting comfortable with it. Just every day gets better every day. I feel about everything gets a bit more comfortable and Thinking you feel much better. That game is followed by Buffalo hosting Baltimore Sunday. It's Cleveland at Kansas City, while New Orleans will host Tampa Bay. See Ox Vice President Scott Fitterer is now the new general manager of the Carolina Panthers. You spent the last 19 years in Seattle. Corey Kiss Bert scored 23 points and grabbed eight rebounds as top ranked and undefeated Gonzaga Be Pepper dine last night 95 to 70. The Washington Huskies lost to USC 95 68 sports attendant 40 minutes past the hour. Americans COMA News. The CDC is out with new details on the distribution of the Corona virus vaccine, the health agency saying that over 1.3 million Americans have already received both doses. Meanwhile, the number of covert 19 cases and deaths continues to spike. Desperation Assed America hits its darkest milestone Yet the death toll 25% higher this week than any other week Since the pandemic began in L. A county. A person is dying every six minutes. Ambulances gridlock outside yards and access to that lifesaving vaccine can't come fast enough. Overnight, hundreds lining up hoping for a surplus shot. Staff desperate not to waste precious unused doses. How do you give vaccine to all these people? It's never happened before. How desperate are you to try to get one? Come back tomorrow. If I don't get it today, and in New York City hospitals are now warning. They're facing a shortage of shots that you're triggering this mad rush in Brooklyn at all, because this message went viral falsely telling people there were more than 400 surplus doses at an Army terminal. 30 million vaccine doses have been distributed nationwide, but so far only 11 million first doses administered and so people going to extremes to get the shot. Residents across America. Even Canada and Argentina, flocking to Florida where anyone 65 years and older, even those from out of state is eligible for a dose, leading to what some are calling vaccine tourism. People coming in to get the shot, then heading back to their home state were discouraging people to come to Florida. Just to get a vaccine. But with so many spending their winters in the state governor to Santa says it makes sense to get as many people they're vaccinated as possible, even if they don't live there permanently sheltered Pavel of 67 Year old from Canada and his wife, Karen, came to Florida in November. There now signed up to get the vaccine later this month. There's been so much death and hardship angle EEZ around the world, just United States, but We're just one part.
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"The Beacon Capital Management Weather Center. Beware of a few slick spots on the roads By morning, I'm meteorologist Lisa Spencer in the Forewarn Storm Center. Will be a cold star, with temperatures dropping into the mid twenties. But lots of sunshine out during the day on Tuesday brings our afternoon high to the upper forties and even warmer still on Wednesday, a little chilly in the morning in the mid twenties, but by afternoon will be in the low to mid fifties with a partly cloudy sky. Get an update on news for information, fuel opinion driven. This is the Phil Valentine Show on super talk. Double. Well, well, well, well, Twitter losing $5 billion in a day could have been a nicer bunch of folks hated to fill that one side show. That have you long way Got that? And some of the other stuff. Some of these Wall Street firms are now. Well, we'll just tell you about them the moment I don't have the details right now. 6157379986737 w W T in instant email Phillips 11 time dot com Web address So that.
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"Sue Romero come on, use bowling will pay more than $2.5 billion to settle a criminal charge with the Department of Justice. The DOJ says the charge was for a conspiracy to defraud the United States. This has to do with two test pilots. Did not immediately reveal issues they discovered with the flight stabilization system, known as M cast when the plane was first being certified by the FAA, As Komal reported in October of 2019, the company had known of text messages between the pilots for months before turning the messages over to federal investigators that go on to say the settlement hopefully provides Some measure of compensation to the crash. Victimsfamilies and beneficiaries. An 18 year old driver is charged with vehicular homicide. The death of a 23 year old student. Was struck on the model like Bridge on New Year's Day comas, Eric Hi, It's reports. The King County prosecutor's office is Kyle Dickinson was also charged with felony hit and run and driving without a valid driver's license. He was released from the county jail after posting $100,000 bond and is scheduled to be arraigned on January. 14th. Prosecutors say Dickinson was driving his parent's car around 1 A.m. on January 1st when he hit you Dub student Jared West, who had just left a nearby party and was in the street. Eric Giants Come on news Coma news Time 8 40 from the Beacon Plumbing Sports desk tonight. Stanford beat the Huskies 91 to 75. Gonzaga beats BYU 86 to 69 in the second half right now. Washington State Cougars lead Cal State Golden Bears. 54 to 44. Let's check out now what Bill Swartz says today the Seahawks will miss the Saturdays NFC playoff game. Not when coronavirus restrictions that prohibit fans from attending Saturday's NFC Wild card it Blumenfield. But these air two football teams more than familiar with one another safety Jamal, Adam says will come down to execution. And who wants it more between the Hawks in the Rams, just like we know them. They know us, right? And that's what makes this You know this match up very special. It's gonna be a lot of trash talking. Um, a lot of hard hidden Seattle listing corner should kill Griffin and tackle Jarron read as questionable other than a small number of family and friends. No Steeler fans allowed at Heinz Field to watch Pittsburgh play The Cleveland Browns High school football practice can now start February 1st under a new policy adopted by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association. I hope that games could begin in mid February at a huge trade involving the Mets and Cleveland Indians today. Six players involved with Cleveland acquiring shortstop Francisco Lynn Door and pitcher Carlos Carrasco. Sports updates a 10 and 40 After the hour bill's words come on, is What you doing? Trying on glasses was sent his three d virtual triumph. Wow, That's pretty cool. But those glasses kind of make you look like your uncle Bob. Oh, not exactly the look I was going for Okay. How about these clear glasses? Oh, or these round ones? Very on trend. I like both on you. You know, I also like these aviator sunglasses. Wait, Are those the actual prices? I say, Get all of them. Seriously? Why not? Right?.