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Northwest Newsradio
"contributing editor" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Bills, but as herb wife bomb a contributing editor at checkbook dot org cautions those warranties are actually best avoided. Home warranty companies offer peace of mind for an annual fee typically between $401,000. They promise to save you thousands of dollars if you need an expensive repair. But checkbook found that most of these plans are terrible deals. Buying these things will not mean that you still don't have to pay for problems in and around your home. Checkbooks executive editor Kevin brasler says homeowners often find out too late that their home warranty contracts have numerous limits and exclusions in the fine print, so they get stuck with much of the cost for things that need to be repaired or replaced. Most home warranty companies, the advertised that they fully cover appliances. If there's a breakdown or you need to replace it. But some of them, many of them hide in fine print that they'll reimburse you only up to the depreciated value of your dead refrigerator or dishwasher or whatever. If it needs replacement. And most homeowners are going to find that payout very disappointing. Checkbox editors read through the contracts as some of the biggest home warranty companies in the country and found a lot of exclusions, such as hot water heaters, smart, home devices, security systems, and solar panels, and even for covered repairs you might find your claim is denied if you don't have records to prove that you performed the manufacturer's recommended maintenance or the problem was caused by something other than normal wear and tear, like a power surge. And keep this in mind. You pay a fee typically 50 to $150 every time you file a claim and a service person comes to your house, and then if the warranty company denies your claims and they often do, then you still have to pay that service fee or you can't get out of that. But here's the key reason checkbook doesn't like home warranty programs. You, the homeowner, don't get to pick the company that does a repair work. Instead, the home warranty companies send someone out that is agreed to contract with that company to provide diagnostic and repair services. That repair business it
Northwest Newsradio
"contributing editor" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"A contributing editor at checkbook dot org, runs down your eye care rights. After an eye exam, the doctor is required to give you a copy of your prescription for free and with no strings attached, whether you ask for it or not. For contacts, the prescription must be provided after the fitting is complete. The FTC's eyeglasses and contact lens rules are designed to enhance consumer choice and encourage competition by making it clear that a patient does not have to buy their glasses or contacts from their eye care professional. I mean, you have to pay for the exam, but you do not have to pay extra to actually get a copy of the prescription. Doctor Marlon mouse and adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley school of public health says the contact lens rule makes it easy to shop around for the best price. Basically, give consumers a choice and you're right as a patient to own the prescription to your context. A few weeks ago, the Federal Trade Commission sent cease and desist letters to 24 eye care providers, warning them that based on consumer complaints, they appear to have violated the contact lens rule and in some cases the eyeglasses rule by not providing patients with copies of their prescriptions. The commission did not make the names of those eye care providers public. The FTC's letters noted that violations of the rules may result in legal action, including civil penalties of up to $50,000 per violation. Keep in mind, the contact lens rule says the prescription provided by your eye doctor must include specific details, such as power and material and where appropriate the brand name or manufacture. As doctor mouse explained to checkbook with contact lens prescriptions, these details are critically important. The prescription for eyeglasses is just basically the strength of the prescription. But with contact lenses, it's not just the strength. You can be a minus two, and I can be a minus two, but your context would never fit me. You have to have the exact prescription because your contact lenses in my contact lenses are not the same. Remember, you have a right to a paper copy of your contact lens prescription. If you'd rather have an electronic copy, you can still get it. You just need to
WTOP
"contributing editor" Discussed on WTOP
"Bomb and contributing editor at checkbook dot org reports, they're not many regulations to control what insurers can collect or what they do with that information. Insurance companies normally use a variety of demographic factors such as age and gender to set their rates. Now 9 of the ten largest insurers in the U.S. offer telematics programs, also called usage based insurance that measures driver behavior, their marketed as a way to better align premiums with your specific risk and reward those who drive less and who drive safely. For some drivers, the data can be uploaded directly from their connected vehicles. For others, monitoring is done via smartphone apps. So what's the catch? Theoretically, this is supposed to benefit consumers and improve pricing because insurers would ideally use that data to determine how risky someone is to ensure and price the premium appropriately. But in practice, there is a lot of concerns, both about privacy and what companies do with that information and whether they increase costs for consumers. Michael delong is an auto insurance expert with a consumer federation of America. The company's all claim, we are not going to take your data and sell it. But I don't really trust them and frankly, neither should you. Checkbook visited insurance company websites and found that many list vague descriptions of what they track, such as hard breaking, fast cornering, and distracted driving So what does hard breaking mean? What constitutes distracted driving and how much weight does each factor such as mileage or time of day carry when computing a driving score. Whenever we've tried to get more transparency about the factors that go into telematics programs and how much each factor matters like on a percentage basis, the companies have pushed back and said that would hurt competition and it would ruin everything and we don't want to do that. Consumer advocates also worry that insurance companies are collecting more information than they need to run these telematics programs. A consumer reports investigation found that most insurers generally require
WTOP
"contributing editor" Discussed on WTOP
"Weekend never materialized. There was also no end to the war of words over the number of Ukrainian casualties during a recent rocket strike in the city of comortas. CBS News Ian Lee has more from Kyiv. Ukraine denies anyone died in the attack and reports on the ground say none of the two closed college dormitories used to house troops appear to have been directly hit or seriously damaged. And there weren't any signs of blood or bodies. Local residents say the attack happened on orthodox Christmas Eve during Russia's self proclaimed ceasefire. Brazilian authorities say hundreds of protesters were arrested in Brazil after a protest in support of former oppressed the former president of the country, led to demonstrators storming Congress, the Supreme Court, and even the presidential palace on Sunday, thousands of demonstrators bypassed security, barricades, climbed on the roofs, broke windows to get into the buildings several journalists also claimed they were attacked by protesters. And coming up, what are your rights when you, when your flight is canceled or delayed? We'll talk about that with consumer man, herb weisbaum, a contributing editor to checkbook dot org. 1236. This is attorney James Collins. After nearly three years on the sidelines, we're bringing back our estate planning seminar. We'll talk about new things like how the secure act two affects your plan. We'll talk about important things like how to protect your money from a state and inheritance taxes. How to avoid probate and how to keep your money in your family and protect your beneficiaries from lawsuits, bankruptcy, divorce, the in laws, maybe even protect your beneficiaries from themselves. After a three year hiatus, we're gonna run out of space, so don't be left behind. We'll be at the Marriott enticings on Tuesday, January 24th, and the Bethesda Marriott on Thursday the 26th, with sessions at one 30 and 7 p.m. each day, we're
WTOP
"contributing editor" Discussed on WTOP
"Why not misguided at the age of 76 her daughters were known in Ashley say their mother died By the disease of mental illness Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony decurtis says the duo broke up and sometimes got back together The difficulties that went on and Naomi underwent largely it seems to do with these mental health issues That was something that kind of countered the public image of that Together with winona the mother daughter combination known as the jud had 14 number one country chart hits They were supposed to be inducted into the country music Hall of Fame tomorrow night Investigators in fairfax county hoped to be able to finally provide some answers in an unsolved murder mystery that's lasted almost 20 years She's been known as Jane Doe for coming up on 21 years Back in 2001 detectives found this victim behind a department complex Mister eddard Carol with a fairfax county police major crime cyber and forensics bureau We believe she was in her late teens early 20s Now the department's partnering with a private DNA lab that uses crowdfunding public awareness and its DNA database to try to put a name on the victim We're baffled by this case so we're anxious to get this case move forward find out who she was And then we're going to be coming for the person responsible for this homicide Neil law can stay in double TLP news Right now the dollar bill you carry in your wallet it's printed in two places Fort Worth Texas and a building that overlooks the title basin on 14th street But that's about to change The state of Maryland's announcing that the facility where your money's designed and printed is heading here to the beltsville agricultural center Primarily we will be manufacturing United States currency We will have four production lines VEP director lenore says when it opens your cash will literally be made in Maryland The first line of production with currency there will be in 2027 Lisa's will vote as with the Maryland commerce department it'll be built here on powder mill road about halfway between Maryland two O one in the Baltimore Washington Parkway David ianucci is with the prince George's county economic development corporation many of these employees of BEP already live in prince George's county In belts those John dome in WTO P news Money news at 25 and 55 years shown down again This is a Bloomberg money minute We're facing the worst inflation we've seen in some 40 years and while companies such.
The One You Feed
"contributing editor" Discussed on The One You Feed
"Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is a repeat guest, the one you feed podcast. It's Florence Williams, a journalist, author, and podcaster. She's a contributing editor at outside magazine in a freelance writer for The New York Times, slate, mother Jones, National Geographic, and many, many others. Today, Florence and Eric discuss her new book, heartbreak, a personal and scientific journey. Hi Florence, welcome to the show. Hi, Eric. So great to be here. Thank you. Yeah, it's wonderful to have you back on. We had you on, I don't know the date. It's been years at this point. We talked about your last book, which was all about nature. Your current book is called heartbreak, a personal and scientific journey. And you're just such a great writer. It's such a well written and beautiful book. Thank you. So we're going to talk about that, but before we do, let's start like we always do with a parable. There's a grandparent who's talking with their grandchild, and they say, in life, there are two olds inside of us that are always at battle. One is a good wolf, which represents things like kindness and bravery and love. And the other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed and hatred and fear. And the grandchild stops and thinks about it for a second, looks up at their grandparent and says, well, which one wins, and the grandparent says the one you feed. So I'd like to start off by asking you what that parable means to you and your life and in the work that you do. I've thought so much through this project about the power of negative emotions. So I had never experienced heartbreak before, and when it happened, it so knocked me off my socks, changed the way my body felt changed my health, changed the way my cells were functioning. And that's what really drove me to write this book. So I had to confront why is it that uncomfortable emotions are so difficult to deal with? Why do we avoid them? And so the one you feed, you have to make a choice sort of on a daily basis. How are those negative emotions going to play you and how are you going to play them?.
WTOP
"contributing editor" Discussed on WTOP
"Time now they've pushed to March 28th and they say they're going to require that their employees have a booster vaccine and proof of it in order to return to the office Ronnie specter of the ronettes has died She was 78 Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony da Curtis Anyone who's interested in who the great female singers are in rock and roll run a specter is very near the top of that list CBS News brief I'm Jennifer Kuiper 1218 Yeah I think whether on the 8th and when it breaks rich hunters in the WD traffic center I'm pretty quiet right on the beltway in Maryland as played no problems on the Internet through Montgomery and prince Georges county two 70 north and south running well No issues on I 95 Ready And traveling over to and across the bay bridge the westbound block for overnight maintenance he's found carries two way traffic when they freeze direction A delays there have been brief if you're traveling on 66 in Virginia westbound between one 23 and route 52 left lanes get your body works on and then between the two center villa interchanges route 28 and route 29 X at 53 and 52 also getting by the work two lanes to the left eastbound 66 between nutley street and ballet single file right through the work zone and on the rat two join the inner loop of the ballet you squeeze by single file left on that ramp as watch out for free slow down WTF traffic The game keeps on holding overtime And then we're in for a mild winter day highs in the upper 40s Friday highs will be in the 40s but.
POLITICO's Nerdcast
"contributing editor" Discussed on POLITICO's Nerdcast
"Something that you know. People say who studied political sciences like women operate differently when they are in target right in one of those ways is by listening like it almost sounds trite. It's like but male politicians seem to listen. Les speaking i've been covering vice. President cares very closely. She's a favorite target for conservatives. Camara's is border and now even some for closest allies itchy needs help thinning of incoming fire meeting. Here's does the way bonus points worked flavor. Okay perfect right. This is playbook deep dive gene daniels. The comma harris politics playbook began during her law. School courier boom. My playbook headline would be carmela harris. The convener and chief question mark. I've watched as she builds relationships with a wide array of democratic allies which she could leverage in the administration and a future presidential campaign my colleague. Hey zeus rodriguez. And i met a few years ago when he was part of a student program. Here called the political journalism constitute eugene and being both people of color. We obviously bonded quickly. He's now big deal a contributing editor at our magazine and in his spare time much like harris re decades ago. I also in my spare time full-time student at georgetown law put in present. So what's the evolution that the politician hairs is today. Zeus.
The Hull Show ? 1310 KFKA
"contributing editor" Discussed on The Hull Show ? 1310 KFKA
"My buddy brady hall thirteen ten. Kfi in that that's like a cosmic collision or something there. You didn't know that was coming up. Colfax may be at. That's not the kind of changes the time space continuum when when my voice leads into my may wanna show. That shouldn't show nabet mark. Johnson filling in for brady hold today here the whole show by. Cdc it's knowing what his voice kpfk. Joining assistant neil. Well he is contributing editor for cu. Bus dot com. And truth be told. Neil that i share an office and have you ever seen the movie stepbrothers with will ferrell and john c reilly that's kind of the existence we have In that office so but you haven't cleaned anything at all by the way you need to take care of that. You're the one that leaves the crumbs every well. It's it's an interesting time of year for us is not a whole lot going up. But it's been awful. Wants you to buffalo or thirteen or fourteen. I think competing in the us olympic trials. Yes sir thirteen. Fourteen total competing Three of them earned olympic berths and then another guy morgan pearson won the us olympic triathlon trials. He's a former cross country and track runner and He's going to represent the us. And the in mea triathlon and then Cockburn former buff is going in the steeplechase as val and then go quicker and the ten k so yeah. It was a really nice nice week for the bus at the olympic trials. You know it's interesting. We we always for good reason. We get hyper focused on football and basketball many times but what goes on at the university of colorado from a track and field across country perspective really is really special. You know as long as you've been around that program and you much appreciate that. Yeah you know with with mark wet more just year. After year year produces you know great runners in and world class athletes. I mean mba's been emma's you know she she's been gone from. Cu for eight or ten years. But it's still you know one of the world's best in the steeplechase and then you've got young. Young people like val constantine. Who's just stepping up. And she's gonna she's gonna assume that role sage heard. It didn't make the olympic team. He's going to be part of that. Joe clicker it's it's just a. It's a consistent steady great program doubt about it done a phenomenal job. Hey before we get anything Kind of related to football basketball. Though i i stumbled upon it when we were kind of setting up the show here today and I promise that on the air..
The Hull Show ? 1310 KFKA
"contributing editor" Discussed on The Hull Show ? 1310 KFKA
"If you're the quarterback you know some of the time you do you know you never want the guy who won't make that one throw to win the game. Sometimes that is part of the job to it's just you know for a guy like locked it was. He was making the same mistakes against the same defensive. Looks you know over and over again. And and putting his team in a bad position and that you know you can over overcome a lot of things as a quarterback mistakes will lose you the job. The quickest you know and that's And that's i think going to be their message to both of those guys. Look the defense is good Don't put us at risk. You know until the place when you need to. And i think that's going to be part of the equation. I think you're right. You know there must be times. I know there are times in this. We talked about it in his business. Where we feel like it's groundhog's day like we keep talking about the same thing over and over and over and over again in a. I'm wondering d did i do understand. It's directly is is friday the deadline when Maybe a certain quarterback that was great and yellow can make a decision whether he wants to play because of the cova thing or not is is is there any is there any validity to that whatsoever or it is possible for them to do it but it does not improve his situation for him which is why i am talking to a lot of people around the league gets why a lot of people would be surprised if he did it because it doesn't help him he can do it. Yes but he's still under the thumb of the packers and the packers still holds his rights. And it would effectively remove any ability. He has to put pressure on them. 'cause that puts them on the sidelines for the season. It goes to show you in this game and you were kind of referencing. It where we're talking about teddy bridgewater and drew lock and in quarterbacks and become a game of football how important they are had out. If there's a sliver of hope you can get a great one. Everyone just latches onto don't.
The Hull Show ? 1310 KFKA
"contributing editor" Discussed on The Hull Show ? 1310 KFKA
"We're going to shift gears a little bit talk about the national football league and specifically the denver broncos. It's a quiet period right now. The national football league which means jeff legwold from. Espn would be. Let's see probably wearing an ascot drinking a cold drink. stressed out by the pool at his palatial estate colorado mountains so that that i described that right there luggy well. That's pretty much my look during the all that is true. That's true and anyone knows me a clothes horse back what's been great with. You know the snow that hugh hefner has passed on seeing somebody wearing pyjamas alaska to at work every day. I think is refreshing. And i'm glad you're carrying a fashion statement you know he isn't a line. I i guess we carried on what they teach champion. Illinois cla wardrobe malfunction. Right see exactly. Yeah what what. What are you doing right now. Because there's nothing going on. Actually you know we're always Kinda crank it on pre-season stuff at our place. You know putting all that together. So and i'm still making calls and i'm working on a project trying to put together for the.
Momus: The Podcast
"contributing editor" Discussed on Momus: The Podcast
"Welcome to MoMA's the podcast. We are your host's sky gooden. And Lauren went more. So I understand that you spoke to Rihanna Jade Parker this week. Yes, so exciting. Rihanna is really strong critic out of South London, also a curator and researcher. She works variously with Tate modern and is a contributing editor at frieze. And I understand she's working on a compendium of black British art for the Tate modern. Yeah, it's something she touches on in this conversation as an act of responsibility, she says to a generation of black cultural producers who have basically little to know historical record to point to. This is, I think, a huge sort of art historical effort that she's making. I mean, it's interesting that this text or this compendium is coming out of Britain to also in line with the text we're going to discuss today in terms of monarchical power over exclusion and inclusion of black voices. Yeah, I'd say that's a recurring theme in her practice over the last few years, certainly is the kind of onus that black.
Vogue Podcast
Gigi in Wonderland - Vogue's March Issue Cover Story
"She's perfected the art of living in the spotlight. But motherhood has opened digi hadeed up to a new world and a new set of priorities. I'm khloe mao evoked contributing editor. And this is g. G in wonderland knew that i have that animal in me says gee hadeed relaxed. In bright. from december cold the twenty five year old model is astrid colored quarterhorse named dallas. And telling me about the birth of her baby in september here at her home in bucks county pennsylvania following a fourteen and a half hour labor at her side. Were her partner zane. Malik her mother yulong to her sister. Bella and a local midwife and her assistant when you see someone do that you look at them a bit differently. I probably looked crazy actually. She says a giggle tinged with pride. I was an animal woman. Mallet cut the baby. Click that she was out says gee gee gazing forward through dallas alert ears as we plod through the upper fields of harmony hollow. The farm owned by longest boyfriend. Joseph goalie a construction firm ceo. I was so exhausted. And i looked up. He's holding her. It was so cute. She's in a cropped long as puffer stretch. Czar jeans and warned black riding boots and looks like neither a harried mother of a ten week old nor paparazzi ducking supermodel with her hair roped into a smooth bun bear face and tiny gold hoop earrings. She resembles mostly her teenage self. An equestrian who showed jumped competitively while growing up in her hometown of santa barbara. California what i really wanted for my experience was to feel like okay. This is a natural thing that women are meant to do. She planned to deliver it a new york city hospital but then the realities of covert hit particularly sequestering here ninety minutes from manhattan and the limits on numbers in the delivery room which would preclude yolanda and bella from being present. Then she and malik watched the two thousand eight documentary the business of being born which is critical of medical interventions and depicts a successful home birth. We both looked at each other. And we're like. I think that's the call. Gd says they placed a blow up bath in their bedroom and sent their three cats and border collie away when the midwife expressed concern that the sphinx and maine coon felines might puncture the tub with their claws. Malik ask gee-gee what music she wanted to hear and she surprised him by requesting the audio of favourite children's novel the indian in the cupboard. He downloaded the film because it was one of his favorites too and they spent the early hours of labor watching it together. That's something we'd never talked about. But in that moment we discovered we both loved. Gd says bash family. She then tells me that malik. The former one direction star turned solo artist. Who has famously press shy and declined to be interviewed for. This article likened his own experience of her birth to align documentary. he'd seen in which a male lion paces nervously outside the cave. The lion s delivers her cubs z. Was like that's how i felt you feel so helpless to see the person you love in pain. Doom dula malibu high classmate carson. Meyer had prepared her for the moment where the mother feels. She can't go any longer without drugs. I had to dig deep. Jichi says i knew it was going to be the craziest pain in my life. But you have to surrender to it and be like this is what it is. I loved that you'll monda and the midwife coach through the pain there definitely was a point where i was like. I wonder what it would be. Like with an epa darryl how it would be different jichi frankly. My midwife looked at me and was like you're doing it. No one can help you your past the point of the epidermal anyway. So you'd be pushing exactly the same way in a hospital bed so she kept pushing. I know my mom zane. Bella were proud of me but at certain points i saw each of them in terror says she ducking under a leafless branch. Dow also who've sucking in the muddy terrain afterward z and. I looked at each other. And we're like we can have some time before we do that again. The baby girl named kai digi revealed on instagram in january from the arabic for the chosen one was a weekly. She was so bright right away. Gd says adding that. The baby's heart rate stayed consistent throughout the labor. That's what i wanted for her. A peaceful bringing to the world. Kyw's world has so far remained small. Her mother rarely leaves the bucolic corner of horse country where the hadeed put down roots in two thousand seventeen. Malik bought a nearby farm. The shoot for this story. In early december at a studio in manhattan was the first time g g had left her daughter since birth yolanda took over caregiving duties even bringing her granddaughter along to feed the miniature. Ponies mama and mccoo. Gee-gee has no nanny no baby nurse. None of the traditional celebrity crutches of new motherhood during our interview the baby stayed with her father and zan's mother tricia who is visiting from england for a month to help she decided to completely take care of the baby alone says yolanda odd. And i think that bond is so important. The dutch former model turned real housewives of beverly hills. Alum was my welcoming party. When i arrived at the farm booming. Hello her arms wide on the threshold in. Camo print puffer and boots. I'm proud of her face on magazine but seeing her give birth was a whole other level of proud yolanda says you go from looking at her as a daughter to looking at her as a fellow mother. The natural transitions and generational shifts of new motherhood are at play in the household. It is a family happily influx on the sprawling. Thirty two acre property. The handful of cottages are designated for different siblings. But this summer. When g g moved out of her cottage into zan's house bella and brother anwar graduated to larger cottages leaving. The smallest is a guest house. We're still close by says she but we have our space to be our own little family. She hosted thanksgiving dinner for the first time this year with zero mother cooking the turkey g g. A prolific home-cooked herself made banana. Pi and baked yolanda favourite tatham. Bella occurred over stuffing and spiked apple. Cider in the kubota tv g g got her christmas tree early for the occasion dressing it with personal ornaments. That she and malik have exchanged over the years. The most recent being glass nintendo console a reference to a favor quarantine activity. I decorated fully. Without my mom's help. And i think i did her. Gd says they are tribe publicly known for their closeness yolanda the doting den. Mother gee-gee the fresh-faced protective older sister. Bella the edgier veronica deejays betty and aloof baby brother on war joining g g and yolanda in the kitchen for latinos and cinnamon rolls before a horseback ride eyewitness. These rules confirmed. Yolanda has the sink drinking a smoothie and finishing gee-gee sentences when she grasps for word g g threatens to have a connection if anwar eats her cinnamon roll when he ambles out of his cottage. But motherhood is a new phase and it will be up to g g to decide whether it belongs on the silhouettes of social media. I think she wants to be real. Online's as bella twenty four by phone from new york city but until her child wants to be in the spotlight and can make the decision herself. She doesn't want to put her in that position. Bela who splits her. Time between her. Soho loft and the farm and facetime with her niece and sister every morning says she already enjoys reading books. Aloud that jeeves to read to her including the rainbow fish and the very hungry caterpillar. It's pretty nostalgic. Bella says it could be argued that we are all hungry caterpillars this year cocooning and comforting with hope of emerging bright winged vaccinated g. G wants split her time between her condo and no-ho and the first class cabin of airplanes when lockdowns began she had just returned from walking fashion shows in four countries and discovering. She was pregnant on the other end of covid. She will emerge as a mother. Happily headquartered in rural pennsylvania. Still a supermodel. But one determined to lead more secluded less peripatetic life. I always want to be here fulltime. She tells me. I love the city but this is where i'm happiest furious. Speculation and countless think pieces have attended the question of what this time will mean. Will we slow down flee cities for less frenzied. More mindful life in many ways. Gee-gee the bodyman of such ideas. The sheiks glamorous version yes but also a person drawn to reassessment. It feels like now. I'm in a different place in my life. She says and she does seem genuinely at home
WNYC 93.9 FM
"contributing editor" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Schools are not big contributors. Who's spreading covert 19 something parents listening right now are probably very tuned in about on Tuesday, health officials call for returning students to their classrooms as soon as possible. According to The New York Times, as long as mask wearing and social distancing can be maintained, that's at the federal level locally, at least in some progressive neighborhoods in New Jersey, like mine, Claire in South Orange Maple wood The debate rages on, and it's being framed by some as a dilemma for progressives, especially white progressives, when teachers unions often want support for keeping safe by teaching remotely, especially in the upper grades. And families of color are more inclined to keep their kids home. Joining me now to report on the New Jersey version of that battle. And what if anything, governor Phil Murphy could do about it? Our Andrew Rice, contributing editor at New York magazine, who has a big story on this and Nancy Solomon WN My see reporter who covers New Jersey. Hi, Andrew. Hi, Nancy. Hi. Hi, Brian. And we'll open up the phones right away for any of you in Montclair or the South Orange Maple Wood School district. Parents, educators what's going on in your town? What do you think we'll need to happen in order to get students back into classrooms or to take the right position for everybody's interests and safety and education and lives. Tweet at Brian Lehrer or call 646435 70 to 86 46435 70 to 80 Enter. You want to talk about your article in New York magazine? Maybe for listeners who are not familiar with South Orange, Maple Wood or Montclair described them a little bit. In the context of this We'll be there. These air neighborhoods are these air. There are communities that you know, as they say in the story. That cliche is that you know, people move their quote unquote for the school's right so They're largely made up of, um, of younger families that have moved out of New York City, oftentimes from Brooklyn, um, bringing their kind of New York city cosmopolitanism and values and sort of Progressive ideals with them when they come to the community. And, um, so you know these air these are places where you know Joe Biden won 90% of the vote and and and, and the big question is is sort of like who were those 10% of people who voted for Trump. Um And so what? What has happened is that Over the course of this year's been very divisive because ah, you know, the school reopening issue? Um has has created a kind of wedge between Groups of people that normally would agree about everything else. But actually when it comes to the school's one group of people says, you know that that you know, just hunker down. Be safe. Um, you know, keep keep the school's closed and prioritize the Concerns of the valid concerns of the of the teachers who are concerned about their welfare and other groups. Has Children are suffering and before you bring in, Nancy Ah, and you're both open about this. So I'll say that you yourself and you are In mine, Claire you right in the article in New York magazine that, like many parents, you move to Montclair for the school's Nancy, You're open about living in the South Orange Maple Wood School district and our parent to kids who attend There and Andrew in in your real relative to where you live, my Claire. I gather that the schools were supposed to reopen on Monday for the first time since March. For in person learning, but then they didn't. So what happened in Montclair? Well, what happened was the basic the after many plans had sort of, and deadlines and sort of past and been scrapped. Finally, the district said that they were they were prepared that they had a plan. They thought it was going to be safe. Or a safe as they could possibly make it. They were supposed to have some In service days to train the teachers and how to how to teach in this new hybrid modality on the teachers do not show for those for those days of training. Um, they tweeted out on there are they put out on their instagram page pictures of themselves at home? Ah, you know, wearing union T shirts and a hashtag that said business as usual. And a number, You know, T parents in the district. I think there were some, um, feeling that perhaps things were not operating as usual within the district in any way. But the upshot of it all was basically the superintendent, you know, said on Friday, you know, with great regret. We would not be going back to school on Monday, and, um Now it's in court there. There's they apparently, the district is suing the, um The the Union and consequently you know it's going to be a while. So, Nancy. How fair or unfair. Do you think it would be to characterize this as sort of wealthy white parents battling the teachers union? I think it's kind of unfair. I mean, it's I don't know I I'm on the fence on this one. Um, I mean, you know, there were a lot of I understand the concerns on both sides and I feel those concerns on both sides. I think parents Are concerned about the health of teachers and want to support the union on get you know the When you've got a kid at home who's struggling, and I'm not talking about I think you know personally, and I think a lot of parents would say it's not about losing academic Achievement and academic skills over the course of the year. It's really about the mental health of these kids are kids. Um and so there's you know there. That's what's driving this, I think is this Feeling that Other school, other school district's are doing it. The CDC just put out guidelines and new research showing that infection rates have been low overall from schools. Um, um. And and so parents air reading that and meanwhile have been sitting at home with their kids watching their kids basically devolved emotionally for not every kid but for a lot of kids over the last eight months, so I think you know, it's an Mm hmm. So you have a community of people who are struggling and want to do the right thing. They want to do the right thing by their kids. They want to do the right thing by the teachers and the community and community spread. Um and you know, And meanwhile, the governor basically kicked the can down the road or Or avoided having to take responsibility by allowing each local school district to make its own decision. And so you know it. That in itself is going to bring about a lot of conflict when you you have parents on both sides of the issue. Let's take a phone call here is Donnie, parent of a first grader in Maplewood, Donnie. Iran WN Marcie. Thank you for calling in Hi, Brian. Hi, Nancy. Hi. And true. I interview Hi, Nancy recently for a local article here. Hi, Donny about that. Hi, Nancy. How are you? But I really am wearing my parent had when I speak with you today of.
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"Welcome back to the takeaway. I'm Chi right in for tan Xena Vega. We've been talking about the Biden administration's commitment and ability to truly lead on a national conversation about pluralism and racial equity in our country and what challenges his administration faces and actually achieving that equity. With me is Cheryl cashing professor of Georgetown for special at Georgetown University in contributing editor to Political Magnet Politico magazine. Excuse me, Cheryl s. Oh, Cheryl, part of why I was stomach there is I'm thinking about your book and your book's subtitle and I want to ask you you met the subtitle includes the phrase opportunity horning What do you What does that mean? What do you mean by that? Opportunity hoarding is in group sanctioned process. Sees and have the effect of excluding out groups. In group sanctioned processes that have the effect of excluding out groups. So you know, having high stakes tests for the best on most prized high schools in New York. City. The people who know about those tests and prepare for them forever and have the money to get tutors for them. You know they sanction that is merit, and people who are don't have resource is or aren't in the know. About them are excluded. That's just one example. But you know I'm not here. Promoted book in that book won't come out to next September Go so well. I just think it's an interesting idea, particularly in this conversation, you know, because it feels like one of the challenges right is getting people to understand that if New rights for somebody else doesn't mean less for me s O getting white people specifically to understand that and I wonder about what you think. The Biden administration, either in policy are but also in this sort of messaging and in this, using the bully pulpit needs to do to move to challenge that thought process. Well, yeah, you've hit the nail on the head, right? And post Civil Rights America. We had Five decades of dog whistling where Democrats and Republicans did it, But the Republicans party realigned the south from from the Democrats to the Republicans on a lot of messages. Saying that stoked fear and resentment about people who were allegedly getting ahead of them. Right, You know? Starting well, I don't want to get into the long history. But you know Reagan's welfare, creating Cedric cetera. And you know the refresh. Think thing. If you look at the coalition that Biden has built the coalition that the in Georgia The new Democratic senators from Georgia heavily on the work of Stacey Abrams and many many women, black women in particular. Uh, they They are built. They have built what I help referred to by political scientists, as in Cendant coalitions critical mass of whites who like diversity, or at least open to it. Don't fear it and want to be part of a coalition with People of color to pursue Seigner inclusive Prada policies that bring all people along the opposite of opportunity, according Right. Um and you know there there are Not all white people are the same, you know, and I use the term Culturally dextrous right. Some people are more dextrous. Another one's cultural dexterity. At bottom. It's The ability to accept the loss of centrality of whiteness in politics and culture, you know, in demographics. Without fear, right and even potentially seeing the assets of that potentially loving across lines, right? And I think that there is a growing swath Of cultural dextrous white who's open to this new and diverse America. And, uh, by has done a wonderful job of speaking, uh to those folks. Well, and part of that, speaking to those folks might be his unity message that has been such a central part of his political life..
WMAL 630AM
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"That story about this. John Sullivan. God, this professional anarchist. Insurgent B. L and he was arrested in the BLM protest earlier in the year in Utah. He has now been arrested for his participation in last week's Riot in the capital. What is he extended his participation and and does this pull the thread on more people of the left participating in or maybe even orchestrating this thing will ask John Solomon about it. Coming up in a bit. Also Kurt Schlichter gonna pick up this National Guard story with Kurt Schlichter, A Ah, a retired member of the Guard and the Army. Ah, and after 27 years, and he knows about this stuff, he's been deployed a ton of times. I want his impression on this, too. I know he has great concerns as well. So that's all coming up right now. We discussed this yesterday. This idea of moving to other areas because we have had it in the state that we're in. Versus actually doubling down and re investing our time and energy and actually fixing at least the little small island of where we'd live. You know, maybe we can't change the country. Maybe we can change the state. But maybe we can focus on our community and on our county And is that a way to do it and if we do move Well, do we also run the danger of other people moving and bringing their spoiled politics to where we've moved? It's something that a lot of people are talking about and dealing with. Certainly in this area. Joining us right now is a man who's just written about it at the Federalist Buddies in writing about it quite a bit. He's from Tennessee. Eyes, a contributing editor to Law and liberty. He blocks it, Miss Rule of law, And as I said, I just read his latest article. The Federalist, He's Mark Pulliam. Mr. Polian. Thank you for joining us. Happy to be here, Larry. Thank you for your article. Your headline of resonated with me. Your headlines there, leftists are colonizing red towns and local Republicans are clueless. In fact, you specifically talk about your red town now. You originally from Tennessee. No, I'm actually from the Washington, DC area. I can remember listening to W m A. L have a kid. Oh, that's my That's my my D. C station. Yeah, And so I kind of had a long journey. I left DC after college, moved to Texas went to law school and moved to California practice law for 30 years. Move back to Texas after I retired and got sick and tired of the crazy progressive politics and so my wife and I moved to Tennessee. About a year and a half ago, thinking we left all that stuff in the rear view mirror and after settling in here and started paying attention to what's going on in the community, you realize that there's awoke nous everywhere. The trouble is, a lot of the locals here are unaware of it. They're oblivious to it and as result of progressives are making inroads. We're not hold on because I got it. I got understand something. You just said you. You were tired of all the progressive nonsense in Texas. You must have been in Austin. Exactly Okay, alright, cause yet there because Texas you know, isn't known for their progressive wackiness, except for some little bastions in Austin is certainly one of them. So how are you grappling with this or how are your neighbors sort of recognizing what's going on? Because when I hear from people leaving D, C, leaving California, leaving Maryland, Virginia, a lot of people moving from Virginia right across the border to Tennessee. When I hear that, oftentimes I just assumed that it's conservatives who are tired of the direction that they're state is going so they want to go to sort of Ah Red State refuge, right? But that's not the case you're telling me Well, The headline of this piece, which I didn't write is a little bit misleading. It isn't necessarily the outsiders who are colonizing eastern Tennessee. It's the progressive segments of the local community. The local college, the liberal out of state owned newspaper, the little Special interest groups representing LGBT. Etcetera. Those are the ones that are aggressively trying to capture more and more control of the city. Where I lived on County is not a dynamic area like Northern Virginia or Charlotte, North Carolina or Austin, Texas, where you're seeing massive influxes of people from out of state, but what you have is a group of people. That have lived in a pretty static community. Politically, we've been represented in Congress by a Republican since the Civil War. There was none of this, you know, switch from Democrat to Republican in the 60 seventies or eighties. We've always been Republican. You had President Trump just carried my county by a margin of 72% to 27%. So we're not squishy here, but people because it's been so conservative for so long. They just assume that we will automatically win every elected office. And it's turning out to be not the case that particular with the nonpartisan offices appointed positions, government positions that don't require voter approval. That the progressives are making inroads. And my piece was basically a wake up call to my fellow residents here in blunt county, too, you know, look around she was going on and do something about it. And so what can they do? I guess is the question What I think I think you paint a picture of a lot of communities in this country and by the way, even some communities in Democrat dominated states or even what we could call a purple state. Where If you're in your little bastion of conservatism, you've been represented by a Republican for many decades. Like you describe here, you get complacent. It's like, Oh, yeah, that's those crazies in the big city, but it won't happen here. And yet it does happen here. Well, I think we need to get as organized as the progression starve. They have a little Web sites. Social media presence is a groups that meet to their active They register voters, etcetera. I started a Facebook page Blood County Conservative Sentinel, which now is over 400 followers. Which is a pretty good number for a somewhat sparsely populated rural county. And what people just need to pay more attention to what's going on. You know, don't assume that your school board is doing the right thing. We have critical race theory sneaking in Under the flap of the tent here, just like you know, it is in many school districts around our library has been taken over by these people who want to push the critical race theory and other woke Ideologies. You have to push back. And if you don't push back, like I say in the federals piece, the progressive tide is going to overtake us and, you know, self government requires a certain amount of commitment and effort. And people here I think had just lived in a bubble for so long that they are oblivious to these trends, and they need to wake up. The silent majority needs to start speaking. I also think, sir, that there's this phenomenon that we fall into this trap that that is partly pushed by the media all levels of the media, by the way, that really only want to talk about. Every four years. Who's going to be sitting in the White House that the presidential election that we act as though that is the be all and end all of American politics?.
The Big Story
Is the internet breaking your parents brains?
"I'm jordan rowling's. This is the big story. Bonnie christian is a contributing editor at the week. She also writes a column entitled the lesser kingdom at christianity. Today and she is a fellow at defense priorities. Hello bonnie thank you so much for having me. You're very welcome. I think we have A common thread. And i think a lot of people listening who are about our age Probably have it too. So why don't you start by rewinding to a time for me it was late. Ninety s maybe a little later for you but take us back to how the parents of our generation approached the internet. Yeah well so my experience. And i think many people's experience it sounds like your experience was that there was a real Caution a real concern about the early internet particularly children and young adults using it on their own without supervision and you know without good judgment to recognize what could be dangerous concerns about the amount of time that we spent online. There were concerns about I think the the fear back then was like you'd be in an aol chat room and someone pretending to be your peer who's actually like a an adult pedophile is going to lure you out and kidnap you There were concerns about porn. I remember In my high school computer class. They they really drilled into us that yours needed to google before you went to a website because if you just typed in a url and maybe you misspelled it. All the pornographers bought up all the misspellings of the websites. That kids want to go to. So you misspelled disney dot com just like boom. It's going to be the worst thing ever. I never heard that one yeah. I don't think it's shoe but there was a lot of concern and in a sense. You know i think real concern that. There are a lot of bad things on the internet. Did we know At the time what. The real dangers of the rest of the internet would be. I don't think anyone back then anticipated. I mean maybe professionals but in in sort of like the common Understanding don't think anyone anticipated what social media would be like And how it would us and how it would really affect our thought patterns and and the way we consume information and the way we that information Anyone really guessed what that would be like. How did we learn. Exactly what The internet but yeah in particular social media was doing to our brains. And what do we know now about what's happening in our heads. Yeah so there's been there's been increased attention to this For some time. Now one Book i mentioned in my article with his A good read though. I wonder if he's going to put out an updated edition to address more of social media. Because it was it was published in two thousand eleven is about called the shallows what the internet is doing to our brains Written by a guy named nicholas carr and he focuses really on the effects of the medium. How it it changes how we think It makes it shortens our attention span at it. Interrupts our ability to concentrate our ability To just sort of contemplate or meditate with their own thoughts And you know he wrote that a almost a decade ago now You know before twitter was really a thing and the way it is now. Instagram didn't exist. Facebook was was very much like a place for just sort of meaningless little friendly interactions and so since then i think all of the trends that he identified early have only accelerated and The the introduction and increasing ubiquity of social media You know it really is designed to addict us in a sense. I don't think that's too strong a word. It's all very carefully designed by very smart people for return usage to get us picking up our phones five hundred times a day and that's not an exaggeration. Pick up our funds hundreds of times a day. We go to these sites dozens of times a day that that can't help but change how we think and what we think about who is most vulnerable to that kind of manipulation. I guess if you want to call it that yeah we're i think we're all vulnerable. That said i did write the article with a generational angle and did focus on older people My p- my parents are in the boomer generation. As our i think you know The parents of most of my peers. And what's what's different generational only Is that we do find that. Older people are more likely to share misinformation And that like to share it. Unwittingly and that age more than other demographic indicators like education or political perspectives Wealth things like that Age is the by far and away the the most determining factor of that likelihood and anecdotally. That is something that I've encountered again and again with Friends of mine with readers online both before this article came out and certainly after that this is a a a problem and again by no means exclusive to one generation. There are plenty of younger people who have very dysfunctional internet habits In which i very often would include myself but there is a an a sense in which older people can be more vulnerable because of the lack of Digital literacy despite the pure happenstance of how old they happen to be when this stuff came
AM 970 The Answer
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"Right now, somebody I know who's not buying a car is Charlie Finch. Charlie, if you're not buying a car, What are you doing A few cars over the years for my ex wives, even though I don't drive mostly sobs. And a couple of SUVs, So the whole world is turning into Cuba Auto, Laver's and as a former contributing editor to Art Asia. Physics with a specific concentration on the Chinese military's control of Polly Core, which is kind of the filtering company in China, which handles their business. Question. In my view with the Biden administration coming in is this A, um, a deliberate effort by the Chinese in order to dominate the market now the Chinese because they can control their three billion people for the secret police, they have faithful recognition for everyone. Who's the citizen of China and goes in and out of China and everyone talks about this scheme with they own all our death. They have us To use the Queen's vernacular Mike Porcelli by the short hairs, and I view this as a deliberate effort to dominate and control the market China because they are again A totalitarian country has distributed the vaccine and they are the source of the virus. Probably man made in my view on I'm refer all of you to Nicholson Baker's 25,000 word. Great intellectual Mind Cover story in New York magazine Because now that President Trump is on the way out, off course, the Liberals are beginning to say it didn't come from a bat, and there's no proof that it did come from a bat or any other animal. This man made, But I refer you to a liberal magazine, which is a big part of my team. New York magazine. The cover story must reading this week. So I think as soon as Biden comes in, if China can get its terms that will ease up and it'll be more work for you. Panelists and Mike Porcelli. And double the fee that he charges you to be on the air Each week. Maybe even tip case will come back. Thank you, Charlie. Charlie's not words of words of wisdom. Charlie's the one listening Who's not a call guy, but knows everything else about everything else. Tell you what, though, that New York that New York magazine article is unbelievably fascinating. Hmm. Okay, well, though, as an aside so while you're waiting for your parts to come in, you can read it. Yeah. All right. Now we have another listener who's called 8886927234 this morning for some has something interesting for us. Ted, What have you got for us this morning? Well. I'm home for a couple of weeks. I'm a fighter pilot, and I can assure you my missiles have their microchips in there. And if the Chinese you know, want to dance so well back what I wanted to say my Hyundai had nine recall. I was wondering great. How lucky the ladies at the dealer was so poor so cute so I could go there didn't mind taking a camp. I wonder how do I know the engine is ineffective? All right. What do you mean? How do you know the engine isn't effectively? The engine should be recalled. But maybe it should. And the dealer and and the manufacturers. You still want to go through the headache of putting Ah, whole new engine in or something? You know what year is your Hyundai? Tonight at I P. Please Lord, 2000 and 11. They did have some engine recalls today. Back then they had some real issues with their entered. So what? They called you back on the engine will. Yeah. Yeah, And what do they want to do, Ted? Well, well, mostly, it was like the seat belt and, uh, some of the springs or things like that. But I'm concerned, you know, I think my what Model Exorcist sonata. Uh, I couldn't resist. It had voted from a policeman who was head of the P B a a few years ago. Got the got the vest to the police. 3000 miles on it. I couldn't. I couldn't resist. I still resistance. Well, they definitely have had engine issues. I don't know if on that. That's a I think a two leader maybe. Uh, yeah, that ex special. Uh, yeah. So I experiencing any issues with it Like the drivability of it? Is there a problem with that? No, No, It's very nice. It drives like an imp. Alice Chevy Impala. Uh, but I'm wondering if that it may be secretly grinding. And I'm gonna be left. What? Ted of you head home. Ted, Have you had anybody check the car out? Well, yes, it was at the dealer and on the nine recalls fixed, But I'm wondering, Are they trying to get out and not doing the engine? Because the engine you know it's expected and they know exactly what the labor could be. And the deal is not gonna make any profit. And you've got a woman Maybe. Yeah. Don't the way you've got a low mileage situation I wouldn't be concerned with with with an engine that only has 3000 miles on. It is long. Well, no, no, I boarded three that make this boy Jeff. He bought it at 3000. What's he got now? What's he got noticed about 22,000. No, we haven't priced at that high. It's still It's still nothing so breaking in. So the way this works, Ted with with recalls and stuff like that these recalls there, you know if you go to the What is it? N h t. What's the website? You can go on a website, The highway transportation and Safety National Highway Traffic Administration. Yeah. How's that? Nicole?.
KQED Radio
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"Efforts to promote a just equitable and sustainable society and its hometown of Flint, Michigan, and communities around the world. Maura at Mott, that organ and from the listeners of KQED. It'll be clear tonight in the Bay Area with lows in the upper thirties. Saturday will be sunny in the morning. Clouds will increase over the weekend, though high will be around 60 tomorrow and Sunday in the Bay Area. This'd thank you, Edie. This is fresh air. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV worth watching in for Terry Gross. Today. We're remembering nature writer Berry Lopez, who died of prostate cancer Christmas Day at age 75. He won the National Book Award for nonfiction for his 1986 book, Arctic Dreams and wrote other non fiction books about nature and travel, including 1970, eight's of Wolves and Men. Study of wolves and their powerful influence on the human imagination. That book was based on his travels through Alaska. But he actually raised two hybrid red wolves at his home in the Oregon Woods. Although it was an extraordinary experience, he concluded that wolves don't belong living with people. Gerry Lopez also wrote Fiction taught at Columbia University and was a contributing editor for Harper's magazine. The New York Times said of his nature. Writing quote. Lopez takes readers not only out of themselves to another place but into themselves as well, Unquote. He was born in Port Chester, New York in 1945 and spent his early childhood in receipt of California, where his mother took him on trips to the Mojave Desert and the Grand Canyon. At age 11. His family moved to Manhattan, but he always loved the wilderness, including years spent in the Arctic. Terry Gross spoke with very Lopez in 1989. She talked with him, then about his essays, chronically his travels through North America. She asked him to read the conclusion of one called Gone Back into the Earth. I had just come out of the Grand Canyon with with Paul, Winter and musician and the musicians have played with Paul. And another small group of musicians who had traveled along with us and several friends and whatnot, and we had a very deep emotional experience the group of us together and then we all went our separate ways, and I was Making my last connection to get home, sitting there in the airport in San Francisco and wondering what really was it that it happened? What is the what is the reverberation of of all of this experience that we've had together making music in the bottom? The Grand Canyon? And what I wrote was this Do not know really how we will survive without places like the inner gorge of the Grand Canyon to visit Once in a lifetime even is enough. You feel the stripping down and ebb of the press of conventional time, a radical change of proportion and unspoken respect for others that elicits keen emotional pleasure. Quick, intimate pounding of the heart. Some parts of the trip will emerge one day on an album. Others will be found in a gesture of friendship to some stranger in an airport. Letter of outrage to a planner of dams in a note of gratitude to a nameless face in the park service. And wondering at the relatives of the ubiquitous canyon Ren. In the belief passed on in whatever fashion a photograph accord a sketch. Of nature can heal. Living of life. Any life involves great and private pain. Much of which we share with No. One. In such places as the inner gorge. The pain trails away from you. It is not so quiet there or so removed that you can hear yourself. Think. That you would even wish to. That comes later. You can hear your heart beat. That comes first. Do you think that descriptions of what it's like to be, for instance, in the Grand Canyon are really good reminders for readers who are sitting at home may be in the city or maybe in the country but far away from things of such natural wonder. Well, you hope is a writer that they're good reminders. I I the only way I can really answer a question like that is to think about my own responsibilities or what I feel when I'm in the places that I'm I'm really privileged to travel. I've chosen a kind of life that allows me to go to these places. And when I'm there, I I think a great deal about the reader who, for reasons of timing, or having to take care of Children or old sorts of obligations that impinge on all our lives can't be there. So I hope it's not just a reminder but that in some real sense as a writer, I am they're paying attention for the reader. In other words, I'm looking at things that are not only just of interest to me but in of interest to my what I think of as a community. So I would hope to do more than then remind. I would hope that in what I see in in the way, I'm able to put it together to give the reader some sense of his or her own participation in that place that it's not some distant Geographic location to which they have no connection at all kind of amusement or something at a distance, but something in which they have a personal stake, one thing that that emerges over and over again in your latest collection of essays crossing open ground Is, um, your your willingness to challenge sanctimony and self righteousness and to take on moral ambiguities. And, um, one essay I'm thinking about is about is about a trip that you went on. Sailing with biologists who were killing seals for research for for important ecological research. Why don't you describe the research they were doing? Um, the it was necessary to unravel if you will. The food Web in this area in in the truck CeeCee along the coast of Alaska. And and having having done that to see how to see how animals related to each other there how the food chains operated so that the information could be used to develop a plan for For oil drilling, oil exploration and drilling. S. So he had this irony where you had to take the lives of animals in order to protect the lives ultimately protect the lives of animals. Did you have your mind made up before joining these researchers about.
The Art Newspaper Weekly
2020: The year in review
"To look at the year's biggest stories. I was joined by three of the newspapers correspondence on the front line. Reporting the huge events of this year and their effects on the art world and a brady is our market editor. He's a buck is our contemporary correspondent and gareth harris is our chief contributing editor inevitably as we tackle the year's event to major global stories dominated the discussions the coronavirus pandemic and the death of george floyd and the fight for racial justice. I'd like to begin by talking about the effective of covid on the market. And and obviously this is your area of expertise. And i want to begin by talking about the fares. Because in a way they've been the marker of this exponential rise in the market over the last decade but they fail just as suddenly this year. I told me about fares on the covid back in march and sort of early mart taper off maastricht happened and it was kind of happened a week beforehand. It might have been okay and had happened week. Afterwards i think it definitely would have been cancelled and myself a lot of other journalists. Went out again. See the fat and it had very strange kind of atmosphere. He sort of jokingly foot tapping and elba bumping. But i think people sort of thought that something viruses affecting the outside world won't penetrate walls in the champagne and kind of that elite nature is. Shut down an exhibitor had got tested positive covid and after that so many people attend to call the virus at the fair and some of them were really radio and in intensive care and i think that was just a for me. That was kind of big wake-up cool overseas in the uk went into lockdown the us. After that the armory we happen to have the same sort of time but it was. It definitely was a kind of think. Reality shock that this is going to be something that really was can affect all of us. It didn't matter our were or whether you were off a this forest and have any kind of respect for face of mesa foundries and it's just as one said to me. Everything kind of fell off a cliff in late off training. And then you just saw this sort of chain of cancellations volvo fairs. I mean it's fair to say that the the big fairs have had a terrible year right. Yes they even had an awful. Yeah i was thinking back to when we speak russia beginning of the doing a year ahead. Podcasts i remember when i was leaving afterwards sending i think maggie a message saying we didn't mention carina. Virus and thousand mistake is at that point. We were recording sort of sauce january and we of it very much. They'll as an asian problem and a lot of the talk then was about whether autism hong kong was going to be cancelled and it was at the end of january but i think people still thought that it was going to be quite contained a there but after that east be the fence being canceled was knees. Now fast. Going ahead is news. Just the just hasn't really been anything since about much aside from these fares in in shanghai in november which did manage to go ahead that is a different world to rest of the world maidment. And i think we're really going to see any until about late. May next year by the looks of aside from say ought to buy which is saying that it will go ahead and march but whether actually will not very much master of debate gareth. That's why isn't it all. The fares are sort of basically postponing. And then there's going to be this glut of that happened in the middle of twenty twenty one. I mean i think the all world is beginning to think about a return to some kind of post virus malady but that's difficult is just said because the twenty twenty one calendar is looking quite crunchy. Really got balls. The hong kong is the first honor scheduled kickoff next. Mary and yams new york is next summer. So think there's about six or seven major phase in a row so within a few weeks within night mates at that tape off maastricht delayed Home call up. Awesome hong kong freeze. Neil and then our puzzle as well and then freeze. La in july. But we've been here before. Yeah i mean but we saw. The september was going to be back to back this year with fairs. That were delayed for the spring valley summer. They weren't they never actually happened. So i sort of we could be faced with the crunch or we could be faced with nothing at all this weird september. It's really hot today. It's difficult isn't because dealers and clubs helps to prioritize where they're going to go next spring some depending on all sorts of things like a vaccine and all other source of corona sort of things. I mean i just wonder how dealers will where to go. I mean i spoke to dominique levy a few weeks ago. And she said she's going to have to prioritize not would be quite difficult to do but i suppose collectors just itchen allow curator's itching to get back to in real life
Duct Tape Marketing
Should Business Follow Data or Gut Feel?
"Hello welcome to another episode of the duct. Tape Marketing Podcast, this is John Jansen, my guest today's Reeves Wiedeman. He is a contributing editor at New York magazine. Also featured in New Yorker New York Times Magazine Rolling Stone Harper's, and we're going to talk about a book that is fairly new called billion dollar loser, the epic rise and spectacular fall of Adam Newman and we work. So reeves welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. So. Why don't you give away the ending for for for people that that may be have followed this story Kinda give us the like. Here's you know here's what was going on at the high level. Here's what happened. Yeah. Fair enough while while a lot of people may know it but but the the the short version of the rise of we work in an office leasing company started in New York City that in the course of a decade expanded all over the world The basic business premise was slicing up large office spaces into small glass. Rent out. By Twenty Nineteen they had more than four hundred locations around the world A also had apartments they had started in elementary school. and a variety of businesses that required a lot of money and so eventually in in thousand nineteen, they decided to go public at of gob smacking forty, seven, billion, dollar valuation and in pretty spectacular fashion over over a few weeks in the summer and fall of last year the. Collapsed out of Newman, the company's founder was was ousted and He's spending most of his time surfing. So you know and the future for him and for the company's still remains to be seen, but it was pretty pretty remarkable rise in in a pretty shocking and swift fall. So the at the from the highest evaluation to like when it all shook out, what did it shed about eighty percent ninety percent You're GonNa make me do some math but you're outright it. It got up to forty seven billion at least in this theoretical way, and and this past spring Softbank, which is, is we were primary investor mark it down to just under three billion, two, point, nine, billion so a. Pretty shocking loss value in a very short amount of time. So. What was it? You did a series of interviews with adamant obviously a lot of other people that show up in the book but what what was kind of the timeline for your interviews because it was really pre crash, right? Yeah. I mean, we when I was I work at New York magazine and we had I decided to do this story at the beginning of Twenty nineteen in the. Reason we did it was was because we work with growing so fast, and because it it suddenly was was everywhere. We have an office in in Soho and in New York and suddenly there were half a dozen of them just a few blocks of where our office was and so we saw it as kind of a success story. We knew there was sort of strange things about the company and. It became very clear to me as I as a after interviewing Adam Newman last April April Twenty nineteen shortly before the IPO was announced. And then talking to people who'd worked with him some members of his executive team that everything that was good and bad about we work revolved around Adam Newman. He he was the visionary. He was the sort of branding expert and he was the. That, was driving company, and then as it became clear, he was also kind of embodied a lot of a lot of what what went wrong. So my only instance as I did work out of we work in Dumbo one time. A few years. Was it nice. Yeah. It was nice. It was like all the kind of. HIP places in that part of town. Are. Very minimal decor. So. It's interesting. You brought up that idea of all good things and bad things because in reading through the book you almost. And and maybe other people. Have covered it this way to that it wouldn't have happened with him and it wouldn't have crashed with with him without him. I think that's exactly right and that's when when we wrote my first story and this was when the company was still on the rise we. I didn't come up with this but but the title one of my bosses did was with the I and we and and and you know it's just everything about this company. was. Just, CER- wrapped up in in in Adams great qualities which which company grow and then things kind of centered off off the rails.
Duct Tape Marketing
Should Business Follow Data or Gut Feel?
"Hello welcome to another episode of the duct. Tape Marketing Podcast, this is John Jansen, my guest today's Reeves Wiedeman. He is a contributing editor at New York magazine. Also featured in New Yorker New York Times Magazine Rolling Stone Harper's, and we're going to talk about a book that is fairly new called billion dollar loser, the epic rise and spectacular fall of Adam Newman and we work. So reeves welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. So. Why don't you give away the ending for for for people that that may be have followed this story Kinda give us the like. Here's you know here's what was going on at the high level. Here's what happened. Yeah. Fair enough while while a lot of people may know it but but the the the short version of the rise of we work in an office leasing company started in New York City that in the course of a decade expanded all over the world The basic business premise was slicing up large office spaces into small glass. Rent out. By Twenty Nineteen they had more than four hundred locations around the world A also had apartments they had started in elementary school. and a variety of businesses that required a lot of money and so eventually in in thousand nineteen, they decided to go public at of gob smacking forty, seven, billion, dollar valuation and in pretty spectacular fashion over over a few weeks in the summer and fall of last year the. Collapsed out of Newman, the company's founder was was ousted and He's spending most of his time surfing. So you know and the future for him and for the company's still remains to be seen, but it was pretty pretty remarkable rise in in a pretty shocking and swift fall. So the at the from the highest evaluation to like when it all shook out, what did it shed about eighty percent ninety percent You're GonNa make me do some math but you're outright it. It got up to forty seven billion at least in this theoretical way, and and this past spring Softbank, which is, is we were primary investor mark it down to just under three billion, two, point, nine, billion so a. Pretty shocking loss value in a very short amount of time. So. What was it? You did a series of interviews with adamant obviously a lot of other people that show up in the book but what what was kind of the timeline for your interviews because it was really pre crash, right? Yeah. I mean, we when I was I work at New York magazine and we had I decided to do this story at the beginning of Twenty nineteen in the. Reason we did it was was because we work with growing so fast, and because it it suddenly was was everywhere. We have an office in in Soho and in New York and suddenly there were half a dozen of them just a few blocks of where our office was and so we saw it as kind of a success story. We knew there was sort of strange things about the company and. It became very clear to me as I as a after interviewing Adam Newman last April April Twenty nineteen shortly before the IPO was announced. And then talking to people who'd worked with him some members of his executive team that everything that was good and bad about we work revolved around Adam Newman. He he was the visionary. He was the sort of branding expert and he was the. That, was driving company, and then as it became clear, he was also kind of embodied a lot of a lot of what what went wrong. So my only instance as I did work out of we work in Dumbo one time. A few years. Was it nice. Yeah. It was nice. It was like all the kind of. HIP places in that part of town. Are. Very minimal decor. So. It's interesting. You brought up that idea of all good things and bad things because in reading through the book you almost. And and maybe other people. Have covered it this way to that it wouldn't have happened with him and it wouldn't have crashed with with him without him. I think that's exactly right and that's when when we wrote my first story and this was when the company was still on the rise we. I didn't come up with this but but the title one of my bosses did was with the I and we and and and you know it's just everything about this company. was. Just, CER- wrapped up in in in Adams great qualities which which company grow and then things kind of centered off off the rails.
NPR's Business Story of the Day
Tax Return Report: Did Trump Go Beyond His Legal Limits?
"President trump reportedly made hundreds of millions of dollars lived a lavish lifestyle, but yet paid little to no federal income taxes in recent years that's according to a New York Times investigation. So was trump taking advantage of legal loopholes or might have broken the law somehow well, Lee Shepherd is a contributing editor at the publication tax notes and has a law degree from northwestern university in his here's thanks for being here this morning high. So as you've dug into this reporting in the New York Times, do you see evidence that the president might have might have broken laws here? I see mostly factual issues We sort of have a mixed question of law on fact, on his big abandonment loss, which is kind of a hard thing to know because we don't know the circumstances and because it was a big loss as the time says, it has to get a lot of approvals. So the IRS might be nervous about it. So there would be a lot of arguing about it. you also have a bunch of factual questions like did he pay vodka consulting fee and you know was did she do work? You know was that work worth that kind of money things like that So I mean, presumably, some of these questions would be answered in an audit and when you talk about factual questions in Texas I mean, would it just be a matter of you should not have done that you need to pay a big fine now or could there be places where they would say well, this was some sort of evasion that went beyond that was more serious. In an audit, it doesn't mean you did something bad. It means you did a lot of stuff and you have a big tax return and they're curious about it and they wanna make sure everything's. All right. If. You get something that they don't agree with and they think you know you really really should've known better. We have civil fines in our law we have a whole bunch of them. But they're just fines. But yes, on audit you argue about those two. I mean the president has said he was smart. He said that in the past about finding loopholes in in in the tax system to. Take, advantage of would. Would you agree with that? I mean, did he do smart things here or or not? So smart and potentially you know as we say, every legal wrong carryovers are not loopholes. I mean this is. This is the way the law works. The question is, did you did your behavior fit into? You know deductible expenses. Did you prove the amount of this loss you know are you entitled to carry this? Loss? Back. I'm a seventy thousand deduction for hairstyling for time on television show that was sort of eye-popping to a lot of people that the kind of thing you would see in a lot of people's. TAX RETURNS IT'S Entertainers yes. Entertainers fight about that kind of stuff routinely. That would become in the entertainment industry. Oh, good. Lord Gif, and he's also in a weird position because. And they've times points to Saudi sells his lifestyle. As S at that's that's his image even when he was just a real estate developer, that's what he was doing. So you know a certain amount of what looks personal. Maybe deductible.
Travel with Rick Steves
Lockdown in Honolulu
"Don Wallace is on the line from Honolulu. He tells US authorities they're put in a new set of restrictions because of a recent surge in Cova cases on Oahu justice they were hoping they could start reopening. It's crucial tourism industry. Don's a contributing editor at Honolulu magazine and he's updated us on Hawaii tourism in the past and done you're you're out there about twenty five, hundred miles away from anywhere else in the middle of the Pacific. Hawaii depends so much on tourism and I would imagine it's been quite a stressful time with the coronavirus continuing to spread. What's it like in Hawaii right now. Well the whiny started out as soon as thirty thousand tourists stopped coming way did very well on the virus were the lowest in the nation for states. Now we've had a spike starting at the fourth of July and August it began to get up to two hundred cases a day. I know that doesn't sound like much but. you don't have that many hospital facilities. That, we had to do a banning perks, beaches hiking trails and gatherings over ten So is the response and the impact of the corona virus different from different islands. who gets most of it in fact, it's almost miniscule on now big island, the ninety MILICI, those islands, the people can pretty much go cleese they. You wear masks you're allowed to fly into a walk who without according to you. But people who can't find their without of quarantine. What about people in the tourism industry? Are they impatient or they realizing that haste makes waste when it comes to getting over the so they can start making money again. It's a very interesting case people very concerned. There's no voice irresponsibly pushing for white opener light opening deal like Texas, did for instance. And I think that's because the workers sixty seventy percent of the are. No a minimum wage workers they don't have good health plans. They carry the burden of this, and the other part is the Theresa Stop Coming. Can Americans from the mainland fly into Hawaiian vacation if they want to yeah, you can come We get about three thousand a day. And I think the hitch there is you do a fourteen day quarantine and you check into your hotel and you can't leave your hotel room. The impact on tourism would be you're probably wondering around the beaches thinking this is like it was back in the old days. You're very much in nineteen threes, Hawaii. Waikiki is a ghost town. That's not entirely a bad thing We think tasteful Hawaii empty beaches, very clean water clean here you feel like being caress be hanging out with the beach boys. Old School Beach Boys. And if you do go out to dinner, for instance, you may have the restaurant to yourself just one or two people. Magic. So That's interesting. I mean, of course the you've lost the revenue, but you've regained your beaches as far as the locals go there was something in the news and I think you wrote about it about gun toting extremists who are wearing Hawaii shirts. It doesn't seem like the Aloha spirit to me what's Really thought it. Up in the news, there's one of these Gun Group extremists start showing up at the black lives, matter protests and other places. Instead of what they weren't Loescher it's Kinda create a sort of scary dissidence. Then people here reacted really strongly. Ensured is about Aloha Aloha is welcoming. It's inclusive. And it's actually something. I wrote an article about how Hawaiian shirts fight extremism. Hungary magazines. It's a love story about two sisters from Portland. Hawaii's eighteen twenty. Married South Asian immigrants helped create yellow her shirt industry. It's a beautiful beautiful story and it's that Louis Spirit that sort of loved that easygoing nece that caring for others. What a what a dissonance by these? What do they call? Boo Goo Boo Voice Blue Boys. Okay. Well I hope you have to handle and then we can read about that in your article and then very quickly what's open now if you are in Hawaii, museums, clubs, restaurants what's The dishes and Him after limited reopening had to close again. We hooked to get them back up in a couple of weeks neither good their little outdoor cafes and restaurants they've shifted to putting cafe tables out on the sidewalks and even the streets in some cases. So Madonna. Of Lua. And you know, thankfully, why is a very outdoor culture? So eating outdoors is. No big concession. So that lends itself to social distancing done. It's so great to have you on. We'll talk again soon I hope everything goes well with Hawaii and tourism, and your work there done Wallace's a contributing editor at Honolulu magazine. He's written the French house about buying a fixer upper on the island and Brittany and he's written articles about what's going on. In Hawaii these days
This Week in Tech
DefCon 2020 Recap
"How about let's talk about DEFCON. How's that been used to be Robert? We would prepare for this week. Because, there'd be all. We've learned about all sorts of flaws and security problems, and so forth in this in the talks that black hat and DEFCON. Is What would happen to us? Is that every the the abstracts would come out and every contributing editor who was looking for a headline would right up the end of the world, because XYZ right exploit is coming without ever looking at the talk and then we would feel people for a week until the actual say, well, they really have to get to your system. There actually was one and I don't know if this was a a black, a black half, a checkpoint software revealed Achilles, which is a nasty flaw in the qualcomm snack. snapdragon. I've got snacks my mind after our. Joyful Conversation I snap dragon chip These vulnerabilities affect forty percent of the android market include funds from Google Samsung LG Xiaomi one plus. And more there are patches. Thank God was is a black hat revelation Robert. That was actually a Defcon I'm trying to bring up the slide deck. One of the things that was different about DEFCON. This year was the fact that they provided all of the talks ahead of time. Nice because they're all prerecorded, and so you've got the slide decks. You've actually got the videos. You've got the right up the white papers. That one was was particularly interesting. The talk was hard to follow because the researcher. Definitely wasn't English as a first language. But as you go through, you realize what he's doing. He was able to take complete control of an android device and you could do in such a way that the person using the android device wouldn't actually know. Route control of his device. That's terrible. he is. Now it says it's opponent own qualcomm compute DSP for fun and profit. It's not the current crop of snapdragon chips. Right, it's an older chip. So if you have a phone, you bought in the last couple of years, you're okay. There are patches, but this is the problem, the older you're on the less likely. You're going to get patches. and. It's not necessarily even the older phones because you have to remember when you're talking about a billion plus devices that are sold every year. A lot of those are low cost devices and low cost devices will use these older chips. Yeah. It's a forty percent of the overall smart smartphone market. So this is a lot of phones. that. Need the patch that many of which will not get the patch there six flaws and they give you complete an absolute control. Of those ones how do you get it on their way? Is it with malware with a with a malicious? APP, for instance? the. Yeah. So. There were a couple of ways that they were shown the the one that I was looking at was actually not publicly available. It was a demonstration that was shown to me. Actually part of DEFCON is the the discord they started up this discord that has all of the. Only. Meet throughout the conference and. Organiz. Yeah. Yeah. Just like it would be if you were actually walking through, they have a wall of sheep discord. Gentle. Yes? Yes. Although it's harder to do if you're not there. Yeah spot the Fed on the discord extreme, right? Like it's not just a militias install, you can target it through video street, you're kidding wrecked. Surrender. On the chip, any incoming content. Oh. My God. So this is A. This is A. This is one that you would clutch your pearls. Unforgiving and I think every silicon engineer has this sort of in the back of their nightmare brain because once you well, we saw that with the meltdown inspector, the flaws until chips once it's in hardware. Mitigation is not easy and and more importantly. especially in the world of Android may not there may be no, no cavalry will come or the untouchable. Jailbreak we saw we saw last year for older iphones to it, right.
The Big Story
Is history at a turning point? How can we meet the moment?
"Now is the covid nineteen pandemic continues to grow, so are the parallels being drawn between it and another deadly virus that struck the globe more than a century ago, talking about the Spanish flu. Guys. We've been taking a look at some of the video from nineteen sixty eight. There's a lot of pieces of video that look very similar to what we're seeing today. Implementing the images and emotions coming out of Minneapolis too familiar to what happened right here in Ferguson Missouri in two thousand fourteen George Floyd arrest on a Minneapolis street corner, and his frantic pleas for help have given rise to one of the most turbulent periods in recent American history. The question that I can't stop asking myself. How does this all and You may have heard. At various points this year that we are living history right now. The truth is we're always living history. It's just that some of us can afford to ignore it until it boils over. But when racism and police brutality, and the rage that comes in response to that are laid bare for the world to see. In the middle of a pandemic and martial law is threatened. And nobody gets to look away. Everyone wants to know what happens next. Do, we even have a historical precedent for what's happening in America and around the world right now. What is the larger context of how we arrived at this moment? What are we missing when we watch people discuss it on. Cable News. And what needs to happen now? But does each of US need to do? For this to be a moment that changes the world for the better. That's still possible. I'm Jordan Rawlings, and this is the big story. Andre Demise is a writer and journalist, a contributing editor at Maclean's and a Nathanson fellow in history at York University. He is one of the smartest guests. We ever have on this podcast hi Andre. How's it going toward? It's going about as well as it can more importantly, how are you? doing my best I'm trying to reduce stress as much as I can by hanging out with my children and you know. Occasionally occasionally seeing partner but we're both in school. We've both got tons of homework were both busy plus jobs and everything else so yeah, we're even busier than before. The whole lockdown happened. Figure that and now you're spending this week with white people like me, asking you to please explain the historical context of this well I mean yeah, yeah, I am spending a lot of time explaining shift away, people. I mean I all. I can say I sincerely. Thank you for it. you know I? Just I find you incredibly smart and able to help me. learn some stuff from this. Thanks for taking the time Oh. Stop stuttered. Stop your flattery. I'm about to Leeann as I can plan. Why don't you just start by telling me while you watch everything? That's been happening this past week. What's going through your head? People say things like we've been through worse or we've been here before, and I have to ask the question. When when when of we've been here before we've been here before. Quote Unquote in nine eighteen during the Spanish flu pandemic. We've been here. Nine, hundred nineteen during the May Day riots and during red summer. We've been here before in nineteen sixty eight. But. My question is when when is all this happened at the same time? This is not this is unprecedented. My. Question is what is supposed to look like when when it's all over when the dust settles. Because at some point, there's going to be a change of some kind. Throughout history what happens in the course of a popular uprising that moves to straight up volt. The two methods that the ruling class can use. To try and tamp it down. One is use of force. This is where the Jimmy breaks down. This is where the state has to reveal as violence. And come out against the people with arms, or can try placating the people you can try it for example, the Civil Rights Act. It can try the declaration of the rights. It can try any number of mechanisms. To make that, the populace still has some faith in the state, but what? This looks like I don't know that there's anything to placate like there's I. Don't know that there's any mechanism. The state can try to convince people that social contract is worth upholding. That's the thing that keeps going through my head. Is You know what kind of concession can be made universally across? You know the entire United States that would actually mollify the anger I do know some of the answers to those questions I do know. That and this is something that I've been talking about over the last few years. That capitalism depends on racism to be able to reproduce and propagate itself. It's just plain fact If you beat Donald Harassed, who is a former economist Stanford also happens to be the father of Kamla Harris the former presidential candidate. But apparently they didn't. They didn't really have much of a relationship, but throughout American history. The the use of Racist promises the promising of white rages. what's been described as racial republicanism by scholars like David. What that does is incentivize the white working class against their black peers. It has the white working class essentially the. Generates like we are the only people that deserve to have. Rights. Everybody else is a on a cast below us. And until that cycle is abolished until we move away from a system of capital that accumulates the value of people's Labor and the crews it to a few select people. And then spreads out the rewards among certain other people, and then makes promises to certain people. Until that cycle is broken. I'm afraid we're going to be seeing this for the rest of our lives. I mean you're a fellow in history what? have. We seen that even close to like this in the past that ended with concessions. You have to go back very far. I mean you can. You can look at for example I mean not. Bolivia has been taken over in ashes coup. But if you look at Bolivia for example, the the presidency of evil, Morales and the Movement for socialism in Bolivia, lifted thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people out of out of poverty. It increased literacy rates incorporated indigenous eighty into the broader society. You had the the coca farmers. The the coca does I their their practices and their agricultural methods were incorporated into the broader nation. So that you didn't have eight of. The United States rating forms and burning crops. You headed that this is this is a a plants, but this is also a way of life that is valid, and the fact that it's been twisted into a normal trade has nothing to do with the people that originated the practice, so look at Bolivia for example like that. That was up until very recently and experiments in creating a broader. Social Democracy that was more inclusive and helped marginalized people, so
Command Line Heroes
Floppies: The Disks that Changed the World
"Jordan Montana is a pack rat. He's the creator of games like karate and the Prince of Persia and he meticulously saved everything along the way journals sketches and storyboards all of it so it came as a bit of a shock to him when he couldn't find something he'd saved and that something was a pretty big deal back in two thousand two magner was working on Prince of Persia the sands of time. The programmers wanted to add the classic version of the game to their playstation two update as an Easter Egg. So they asked him for the original source code but when magner looked in his archives he couldn't find it. He searched everywhere the source code that he'd written on his old apple to the cody was positive. He saved had vanished fast forward. Ten years mechanisms. Dad is cleaning house and buried at the back of a closet is a ratty looking shoebox holding a bunch of dusty old three and half inch floppy disks one is labeled Prince of Persia Source Code Copyright Nineteen eighty-nine and in brackets in all caps. The word original the long lost code found at last it had sat in that box for a quarter century before being unearthed like some archaeological discovery. But this was two thousand twelve. How would he be able to get it off? Those old discs and with the data still be intact. Was it in fact too late to save his work saving our work these days? It often happens. Automatically with programs regularly pushing stuff into the cloud. We don't worry about manually savings anymore. In fact a whole new generation doesn't even know what that save icon represents side note. It is not a vending machine but for many decades saving storing and transferring. Our data had to be done using some physical media when the personal computing revolution took off which we heard about in our last episode on the Altar Eight hundred. There was one piece of technology that became synonymous with saving the floppy disk. It seems so simple. Now but floppies change the course of our history because they helped turn microcomputers into personal computers. I'm surrounded Barak and this is command. Line Heroes Unoriginal podcast from that HAP. Let's put a pin in Jordan Lechner's floppy disk discovery for a moment. Welcome back to it first. Though I want to learn how the floppy disk was born in the first place and how it became such a crucial part of the TECH WORLD FOR ALMOST FORTY YEARS. Our first stop eighteen ninety. Before electronic computers existed there were electrical mechanical computing devices and the method forgetting data in and out of them was through punchcards the size of a dollar bill when electrons computers came along in the fifties. Ibm standardized those punch cards with eighty and twelve roads. A punched hole would form one type of character. No whole meant another for a long while. Those Punch cards were the main method for data input but handling hundreds of cards for bigger. More complex programs was hugely cumbersome. There had to be a better way to save and transfer information next up paper tape which came along in the nineteen fifties to hear how paper tape played a central role in the origin of personal computing. Listen to our last episode. Paper tape had the same punched hole method of reading data as punch cards. Because it's all one tape. No one had to worry about getting cards mixed up it could carry more. Data was much faster to us but as many computers grew in capacity they needed more and more tape to store programs like punch cards. Paper tape eventually met its limit. Enter MAGNETIC TAPE. The key ingredient was mylar a tough flexible material coated with magnetic oxide to make the tape recordable nine tracks could store up to one hundred seventy five megabytes per tape. That was a big deal in fifties and sixties magnetic tape drives of ten and a half inch. Wheels became standard issue for businesses. But the problem take is that it's great for moving large chunks date of one place to another. It's really hard to search on them to find anything in particular when we would install software on our mini computers in mainframes using tate. But it really wasn't that good for anything small and portable or if we wanted to do anything interactive on our with our data that Stephen Vaughan Nichols contributing editor at CBS interactive sure. Magnetic tape could store a lot more data. He was too big and swallow. It was only practical for the mainframe world really again. There had to be a better way and that better way came along in Nineteen fifty-six when launched its very first decide drive the IBM three fifty disk storage unit. It was a component of the three or five ramic mainframe computer a machine that filled an entire room. Here's Dave Bennett. A former IBM disk and storage product engineer. There was storage in core memory. In fact the disk storage device of which ramic was the first was a storage device that permitted random access to give on record as opposed to a tape. Drive interesting thing. That disk drive. Almost didn't see the light of day because it threatened. Ibm's punch-card business but the project was eventually approved. Problem was the drive contained. Discs made of solid metal ramic literally. Wait a ton it had to be moved with forklifts and transport it by large cargo. Not the most convenient storage method but out of that came a better solution of a floppy disk was originally developed for new need and the reason was that there was an intermediate kind of storage originally. There was a computer code and then there was the computer memory. The working memory but with system three sixty there was a new class of memory in between which they called firmware and in system three sixty there was unique technology for the firmware in various forms it was either a special kind of punched card or there was a thing called. Transformer read only storage but the new need was the desire to go from these technologies two semi conductor technology in the days when semiconductor technology was volatile. That means that the memory in semiconductors went away when the power was removed so there had to be a way of recharging bringing the program back into that memory when the power was restored for loading what was called a micro program or that intermediate memory and the need for such a device is what caused the development of the floppy disk dryer so in nineteen sixty seven. A small team of engineers led by David. Noble started developing an inexpensive system for loading those micro-programmes into mainframe computers. The code name for their project was Minna. Noble personally went through all the things that he could think of including various forms of punched cards including use of tape cassettes. And I don't know what else he went through but he hit on the idea of using an inexpensive form of this based on a flexible disc very inexpensive read only mechanism. The Minnow team wanted to be able to mail their micro-programme to various locations. That needed to load it. So the product for sending that program around had to be durable enough to fly through the mail without having its data damaged some kind of casing now what they actually had to do. In order to make it maleable was they decided to put it in a plastic container that was fairly rigid and they would actually read and write the disk while. I was inside of this plastic container like an envelope of plastic envelope. And when you have a coating on a disk and a rigid head you're going to have where and when you have where you have where particles and the problem they had was that as the were particles built up it's kind of caused an avalanche effect. The particles would act as additional abrasive. And then pretty soon with the particles being loose in there. You're where the recording track out and didn't work anymore. So a really smart guy that was on that program men name. Her Thomson came up with a plan that was based on a household dusting fabric that three m soul to housewives for dusting their furniture and he put a sheet of that in there between the envelope and the disk and that material picked up the were particles and they embedded themselves in that fabric and prevented the avalanche effect and really saved the
Science Talk
Coronavirus Hot Zone: The View from the U.S. Epicenter
"Wayt GIBBS was a member of the board of editors and a senior writer at Scientific American from Nineteen Ninety. Three to two thousand six. He's contributing editor. And he's in a unique position to bring us reporting an insights about the current corona virus pandemic. While at scientific American Gibbs wrote numerous articles that gave him experience highly relevant to the current situation in one thousand nine hundred nine he wrote a piece titled Trailing Virus to research that article. He traveled into the hot zone of the highly lethal Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia. Like Corona virus that one also spread from bats to people he co wrote the two thousand five article preparing for a pandemic the plan to fight a new flu which has obvious relevance for our current situation. That article is currently available free on our website. He interviewed Bill Gates for two thousand sixteen. Qna called Bill Gates views. Good data as key to global health. That piece is also up on the website and Gibbs wrote the two thousand sixteen article. What ails the human race about a project called the global burden of disease which began a new chapter in academia logical modelling that work originated at the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics in Seattle where it continues to this day. And we're gibbs plans to go for reporting for future podcast which brings us to the second factor that makes Gibbs's situation unique in addition to being assigns writer of great expertise in the area of Gibbs lives in Kirkland Washington the epicenter of the US Corona virus outbreak. So what we envision for. This series of podcasts is a combination of traditional science reporting and first person accounts from Gibbs about the situation in Kirkland and the surrounding area where the virus has so far hit the hardest in the US we plan on posting at least one podcast a week for the foreseeable future as the corona virus situation plays out and now. Here's what Gibbs. There's some weeks when history seems to unfold before our eyes. This past week has been one of those in the United States. And here in Kirkland Washington where I live. We have a front row seat to the fast growing. Coruna virus epidemic. My neighborhood is ground zero the hot zone on February twenty ninth we learned that Cova Nineteen had claimed its first fatality in the US here in this city of about ninety thousand on the shores of Lake Washington just across the bridge from Seattle. Is I read about the man in his fifties who had died at Evergreen Health Hospital but it seemed a distant and abstract threat suddenly felt immediate and berry real. I am a man in his fifties. I walked across my living room and looked out the window at evergreen health just on the hill less than a mile away. I thought okay here. We go we. In Kirkland and King County will be the guinea pigs testing how the public health systems in America cope with a crisis that scientists warned us would inevitably come that we could have planned for but that his founders unready our experts in elected officials and employers are scrambling to keep up with the torrent of new scientific information about cove in nineteen and the virus that causes it which goes by. The name SARS Kobe to here in Washington state. They seem to be doing their best to act on that information as they make tough decisions about what to shutdown what to keep open and what to tell the public in this episode Alexandra one particularly difficult question that officials face when to close schools. I'll talk with the local eighth grader. Who's online petition? To close schools in our district has attracted more than thirty thousand signatures will hear. King County's Public Health Officer explained why urged schools to remain open for now as long as they don't have any confirmed cases of the disease and we'll hear from experts at Johns Hopkins University and from Anthony Voucher. The Director of the National Institute of ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES. About the mystery of why so few children have become seriously ill with cove in nineteen. But I I need to explain what the past week was like. Ear in Kirkland Cove in nineteen role do our city like a psychological sue. Nami sweeping aside other topics of conversation. Actually a a wildfire is probably a better metaphor infections. Have jumped quickly and unpredictably from one spot to another with responders racing behind to catch up like the wildfire smoke that now darkened skies across the Pacific northwest each summer. This epidemic has cast a pall on daily life on the other side of the hill from my house. About a half mile.
America Trends
Rahm Emanuel Joins The Atlantic, ABC News as Contributing Editor
"A democratic mayor who just left office has landed a couple of jobs, USA's, Chris Barnes reports the newly former Chicago mayor and President Obama's first White House. Chief of staff Rahm, Emmanuel as kicked off a post barrel career announcing that he is now a contributing editor for the Atlantic. The democrat Emmanuel will contribute frequent essays to the Atlantic ideas, section, and what's more. The former mayor is also joining. ABC news as a contributor following the path plays by former Republican governor, New Jersey's Chris Christie in joining that network.
Inside the Spa Business | Spa
Why Open Plan Offices are a Bad Idea
"The dumbest management fad of all time. That's a quote from Jeffrey Jones, contributing editor at Inc magazine in an article that talks about the research from Harvard that found that in fact, open plan offices are bad for productivity. The reasons they state that people tend to Email and text each other a lot more in these environments than in a traditional environment, traditional office environment and the reasons for that our couple guess Polly's the privacy concern, you don't want other people listening to your conversation or overhearing your conversation. The other part of it is you don't want to distract the more disrupt the office environment. And that's something. I spoke about back in it beside one hundred thirty of this show where I felt that for me open plan offices are a major productivity kill because I just get to easily distracted. I'll go to sticky Nuys icon help listen into other people's conversations. And so it turns out now that have a design these things are actually reality for the same reason. Video conference calls. Don't really work unless you've got a private room set up for it. So the short answer is open plan offices tend to kill productivity because it actually discourages people from face to face interaction, which is a little ironic considering the whole point I created really was doing courage more face to face interaction. The other thing, of course, in an open plan office is you've got that sort of social influence around you because everybody's always watching what you're doing. And so a lot of people, of course, trying to busy when in fact, maybe they're not maybe they need some time to design out. And really think about a problem. It's how to do that plan office eve everyone's looking at you, you're worried the boss things you not doing your job. So next time if your office where you want to get rid of your open plan office environment, the boss wine, have it drop some names on him. You can drop Trent that might not do it. You could drop Jeffrey James, the contributing editor from Inc magazine, also may not do it. But if you drop a Harvard study owning pretty hard to not bag that kind of research. Anyway, that's just my thoughts. Agree open plan offices bad idea or thanks for tuning. I
Business Wars Daily
"Meat" Means Only Animal Products, Say States
"This episode of business wars daily is brought to you by zero to show a brand new podcast from octa. Every successful entrepreneur follows a different path. Learn how to forge your own by listening two zero two zero wherever you get your podcasts. From wondering, I'm David Brown. And this is business wars daily and it's Tuesday. April sixteenth. Remember big dairies campaign against the use of the term milk by companies that produce nuts avacado 's anything that doesn't have breasts caused quite a stir in the beverage industry. Well, meat producers are following in the dairy industries big footsteps, four states have now made it illegal to misuse, the term, meet Missouri. Was I followed by Mississippi and South Dakota, the Montana legislature recently passed a similar Bill, which is awaiting that governor signature in those states. The legislation says you can now name food meat only if it comes from an animal, not a plant and most certainly not a cell culture. In addition, ten other state, legislatures are considering similar bans the campaign is a legislative attempt to stem, the tide of consumers choosing to go meatless. The industry site food. Dive reports that seventeen percent of Americans are now vegetarians and another sixty percent say they're reducing their meat consumption. A lot of these folks are switching to plant based alternatives and more recently moved into burgers and other meatless meat products created in laboratories to such alternative meat companies have gotten a lot of Presley, impossible foods and beyond burger are both growing meat substitutes. That are said to look taste and smell like beef. And that's pretty scary to ranchers and meatpackers perhaps the timing of the growing number of state bills is no surprise meet grown in Petri dishes is getting so big that Burger King just put impossible burgers from the company impossible foods on the menu. They called the new item and impossible Walker. When one of the world's biggest hamburger chain start serving non meat meat. Ranchers blanche, the veggie brand tofurkey along with others, including the American Civil Liberties union immediately challenged Missouri's labeling law when that state passed it last year a settlement in that case is expected by may first in Montana, the Republican who sponsored the legislation. There says it's only fair that Montana's know where their food is coming from it doesn't ban. So cultured products just says they can't use the term meet to describe them the ways in which the meat industry's responding can be confusing big companies like Tyson, the chicken producer invested impossible foods rival beyond meat. Think of this the same way big donors contribute to Republican and democratic candidates to make sure they benefit from the eventual winner, but smaller states in producers don't have this kind of clout. And so they are fighting instead meat production is a top industry and many smaller rural States, South Dakota. For instance is. The twelfth largest meat and poultry producer in the nation. Meaning a big swath of that population depends on animals for their livelihood as they gear up for a fight. Ranchers slaughterhouse owners and Packers are also looking beyond. The lab the Montana law is also fending off a growing competition of the six legged kind. It also says you can't call an insect ameet how we name our food may or may not have much to do with what we actually choose to eat. That's a dilemma that will play out over the coming months and years in our shopping carts and on our dinner tables. In the meantime, semantics will continue to play out in the courts in an increasingly hot question for all sides. From wondering this business wars daily. If you think we're the real thing. We'd appreciate you. Spreading the word sheer this episode on social media widget. Thanks, I'm David Brown back with you tomorrow. Businessworld daily is brought to you by zero to PO a brand new podcast from octa a lot of startup stories. Just focus on the big wins. But being an entrepreneurs heart, and it can be lonely. If all you ever hear about his others, crushing it in zero to PO, you'll hear about the different stages of business growth, and the blood, sweat, and tears. It took for some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs to get to where they are today. People like VC's, Mark, Andrew Jackson, and Ben Horowitz. And Netflix is potty mcchord zero IPO is hosted by Frederick harassed co-founder of octa and Joshua Davis, contributing editor at wired the conversations they have are candid and the learnings are invaluable. You can listen to zero to wherever you get your podcast.
Business Wars Daily
Friendlys Fire: Sudden Store Closings Spark Fury
"This episode of business wars daily is brought to you by zero to show a brand new podcast from octa. Every successful entrepreneur follows a different path. Learn how to forge your own by listening two zero two zero wherever you get your podcasts. From wondering, I'm David Brown. And this is business words daily on this Monday, April fifteenth, there are a whole lot of things happening today. It's tax day patriot's day and the one hundred and twenty second Boston marathon, even for non runners the marathon is an institution viewing it or watching the barrage of ads for footwear, athletic, clothing, and sports drinks can inspire even the most dedicated couch potato to go out for a jog. Well, maybe not the most dedicated couch potato for those of us who rather sit than sprint friendly's, the iconic east coast ice cream chain is offering a celebrate Tori marathon Sunday. So what makes it a marathon Sunday? Try twenty six point two ounces of ice cream. That's one ounce for every mile of the marathon, the six coupe red white and blue patriots Sunday costs almost ten dollars will only be offered today in friendlies Massachusetts stores. Offering marathon theme. Treat is counter intuitive and gives friendly's chance of standing out from the outdoor branding mania surrounding the race. But friendly's has been facing just about as many rivals as any top marathon runner from traditional competitors. Like restaurant chain Bob Evans to a multitude of healthier fast, casual restaurants as a result. What's going on in the friendly's boardroom is well anything but friendly in early April at about the same time that it announced its gigantic Sunday friendlies abruptly closed twenty three restaurants in New England and upstate New York, reportedly without warning employees. I the closure sparked controversy over whether the company had complied with federal law requiring sixty days notice of an eminent layoff friendly's owned by a private equity firm has been on a downward slide for years in the last decade is closed more than three hundred locations leaving it today with one hundred seventy four while every company has its own management. Uh-huh. Friendly's is also struggling with dynamics that are squeezing big food brands everywhere. It's an ice cream and burger place in an era when families are searching out healthier lighter foods, it's been in and out of chapter eleven bankruptcy protection. In the last several years. The company says the closures are intended to help the chain and its latest rebranding effort, but the term challenges friendly's faces could be the eighty year old chains. Heartbreak hill. Romm wondering this is business wars daily take a second away from that. I r s deadline and rate and review our show on your favorite podcast Appalachia. We promise it's a heck of a lot easier than those taxes. Thanks bunch. David brown. See you tomorrow. Businessworld daily is brought to you by zero to PO a brand new podcast from octa a lot of startup stories. Just focus on the big wins. But being an entrepreneur heart, and it can be lonely. If all you ever hear about others, crushing it in zero to PO, you'll hear about the different stages of business growth, and the blood, sweat, and tears. It took for some of the world's most successful. Entrepreneurs to get where they are today. People like VC's, Mark Andriessen, and Ben Horowitz, and Netflix is potty mcchord zero IPO is hosted by Frederick Carris co-founder of octa and Joshua Davis, contributing editor at wired the conversations they have are candid and the learnings are invaluable. You can listen to zero to wherever you get your podcast.
Business Wars Daily
Going Bananas: Chiquita Launches New Snapchat Filters
"This episode of business wars daily is brought to you by zero to show a brand new podcast from octa. Every successful entrepreneur follows a different path. Learn how to forge your own by listening two zero two zero wherever you get your podcasts. From one I'm David Brown. And this is business wars daily. It's friday. And that means it's time for dancing bananas. We like to think receives about business here, but we couldn't help but chuckle over the campaign Chiquita is rolling out to celebrate world banana day, which is next Wednesday April seventeenth the one hundred fifty year old banana producers been moving swiftly into the twenty first century embracing both Snapchat and augmented reality in its efforts to get teens and young adults to eat more of America's most popular fruit through the end of may the blue sticker on Chiquita's bananas. We'll be adorned with one of three Snapchat snap codes for you, Snapchat, novices out there that means if you have Snapchat on your phone, you can scan the sticker in one of three augmented reality scenarios will play out, according to the company one Lynn's will turn you into a dancing banana character on Snapchat. Another transforms your. Face into Chiquita banana and third game. Fide? Snapchat, lens invites you to catch falling bananas to score points. Sure. It's silly. But the campaign which will appear on two hundred million bananas underscores a couple of trends one is that marketings becoming more and more interactive. But more accompany can get you to engage with something. Instead of just looking at it, the more interest in loyalty, you might feel at least that's the idea and snap Chatters share their activities widely meaning campaigns like this have the potential to create huge ripple effects on social media tiny banana, stickers that turns out our huge business that you keep us nap chat campaign rivals Dole's current heroic effort dole began piggybacking off the captain marvel movie release in March stickers on millions of it's bananas depict comic book and real life heroes, including women farmers anti-hunger activists and more through the end of may like Chiquita the does. Promotion, which includes recipes inspired by comic book. Superheroes. Intended to get shoppers to spread the word through social media peo- back these playful promotional campaigns. And there's a lot of steak. Both companies are vying for the growing organic market, and though the sweet fruit is easy to sell. Neither rival wants to let their produce lose the spot of top banana. I'm wondering this is business wars daily. This week's episodes were written edited and produced by lane Appleton brand Emma Cortlandt is our editor and producer. Our executive producer is Marshall Louis created by or non Lopez for wondering, I'm David Brown. See next week. Business wars daily is brought to you by zero to PO a brand new podcast from octa a lot of startup stories. Just focus on the big wins. But being an entrepreneur is hard, and it can be lonely. If all you ever hear about his others, crushing it in zero to IPO, you'll hear about the different stages of business growth, and the blood, sweat, and tears. It took for some of the world's most successful. Entrepreneurs to get where they are today. People like VC's, Mark, Andrew Jackson, and Ben Horowitz, and Netflix is Patty mcchord zero IPO is hosted by Frederick Carris co-founder of octa and Joshua Davis, contributing editor at wired the conversations they have are candid and the learnings are invaluable. You can listen to zero to wherever you get your podcasts.
Business Wars Daily
FDA, Activists Pressure Walgreens to Stop Cigarette Sales
"This episode of business wars daily is brought to you by zero to show a brand new podcast from octa. Every successful entrepreneur follows a different path. Learn how to forge your own by listening two zero two zero wherever you get your podcasts. From wondering, I'm David Brown and this business wars daily on this Thursday, April eleven Walgreen cigarette. Sales could go away in a puff of smoke outgoing FDA. Chief Scott Gottlieb has been criticizing the country's biggest pharmacy chain for continuing to sell cigarettes. In February Gottlieb issued harsh criticism to Walgreens over its high volume of illegal sales of cigarettes to minors. Twenty two percent of its stores were found with sold cigarettes to teenagers in most states the legal age to buy tobacco is eighteen. Now. Some activist investors are pressuring Walgreens to stop selling cigarettes altogether saying cigarette sales put their money at risk of lawsuits. So far, Walgreens says no it has no plans to quit CEO Stefan persona says customers demand cigarettes rival CVS ended. It's cigarette. Sales in twenty fourteen attempting to reposition itself as a health and wellness company. CVS says that choice cost the chain about two billion dollars a year in sales. And here's the rub Walgreens just posted its worst quarter in four years, although sales were up they still didn't meet Wall Street's expectations. Last year. Walgreens announced it would cut costs by a billion dollars by the end of twenty twenty one following its flagging second quarter results at tightened the screws, even more. Now, the company is cutting costs by one and a half billion dollars. Walgreens, doesn't say how much money it makes from cigarettes. Although it does say sales have been falling still when it comes to smoking. Walgreens is caught between a rock and hard place on the one hand it may need its existing tobacco sales on the other hand like CVS Walgreens is trying desperately. To become a health centre rather than it retailer, prosciutto the Wall Street Journal last week. He says future success will Bank on its in-house healthcare clinics and lab testing, not it's retail side. Critics have all green cigarette policy point to the obvious conflict between cigarettes and Walgreens efforts to serve chronically ill patients the company which has ten thousand US locations is piloting tobacco-free stores at about eighteen of them to see how customers react a twenty seventeen study showed that when CVS stop selling cigarettes smoking fell by statistically, significant margins. Whether or not Walgreens, stop selling cigarettes, probably won't move the needle on its financial health the strategic problems facing both Walgreens and CVS are far bigger than the cigarette business. But the issue is a huge public health concern last year the surgeon general declared teen e cigarette use epidemic for Walgreens, it's a branding problem. Will consumers close their rise to the conflict between offering healthcare services and selling cigarettes for the ailing pharmacy chain this issue isn't likely to evaporate quickly. From wondering this is business wars daily. We hope our daily episodes light you up tell us. Why don't you tweet us? Your thoughts about this episode at business wars and thanks alive. I'm David Brown. Businessworld daily is brought to you by zero to PO a brand new podcast from octa a lot of startup stories just focus on the big wins. But being an entrepreneurs hard, and it can be lonely. If all you ever hear about his others, crushing it in zero to PO, you'll hear about the different stages of business growth, and the blood, sweat, and tears. It took for some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs to get to where they are today. People like VC's, Mark Andriessen, and Ben Horowitz, and Netflix is Patty mcchord zero IPO is hosted by Frederick Carris co-founder of octa and Joshua Davis, contributing editor at wired the conversations they have are candid and the learnings are invaluable. You can listen to zero to wherever you get your podcast.
Business Wars Daily
Sweet Sorrow: Kelloggs Says Ciao to Keebler, Famous Amos
"This episode of business wars daily is brought to you by zero to show a brand new podcast from octa. Every successful entrepreneur follows a different path. Learn how to forge your own by listening two zero two zero wherever you get your podcasts. From wondering, I'm David Brown and this business wars daily on this Wednesday. April tenth brace yourself. This episode could make you hungry for the next. Couple of minutes will be talking chocolate. But cookie business has become one big chess game last week Italian company Ferreiro announced it's buying Keebler and famous Amos cookies from Kellogg. Yes. The Keebler elves are legally any way moving to Italy Ferraro is spending one point three billion dollars to spirit the elves across the pond famous Amos and Kellogg unit that bake some girl scout cookies, we'll go with them Forero known for its new Tele hazelnut spread is quickly becoming one of America's sweetest sweets companies. This is the fourth American cookie or candy brand. It's eaten up since twenty seventeen. Ferreiro bought Nestle's candy division little over a year ago. Those Keebler elves will be joining baby Ruth butterfinger. And many other delicious American trifles. So what's going on Kellogg admits that it was starving? Those poor elves and Amos of resources it was pouring its efforts and money into treats that have sweeter returns on investment from pop tarts to Pringles Kellogg. I started shopping the brands in November it's been trying to figure out how to spur Americans lagging appetites for snacks from big old brand names. In fact, it's been a rough patch for most consumer packaged goods companies. According to NPR, young shoppers, simply aren't brand loyal the way baby boomers were for Kellogg. That means the Keebler name no longer pools. It's weight as American shoppers are increasingly avoiding processed foods Kellogg in its competitors. Are pulling their hair out at least sixteen consumer packaged goods CEO's had left their jobs between twenty sixteen and twenty eighteen the Wall Street Journal reported presumably. They were failing at or exhausted from trying to kick start growth, but if it were just the shift toward healthier food that was hurting cookie sales. Why would Herero be sweetening? It's own desert portfolio apparently will still indulge plenty, especially if the quality is high for railroad specializes in improving tired brands in February and relaunched Nestle's one hundred year old butterfinger candy Barr with more chocolate and no hydrogenated oils. So Ferreiro sees a huge opportunity in our collective sweet tooth as does delay international. Jones. The Oreo Mondays spending more than two billion dollars to buy those yummy. Danish butter cookies dance or rather maker the Kelsen group from Campbell Soup. Campbell's is another legacy food brand that's been struggling to reshuffle. Its portfolio Monday is also buying Australian cookie maker or. Or should we be calling them biscuits? So cookies are not being flattened by celery and carrots, there's still a lot of money to be made in indulgences, but selling them is harder than it's ever been. Which is why cookie chess his getting so aggressive? From wondering this is business wars daily. Hey before you run off to that mid morning snack. Take a second Llosa five star rating on your favorite podcast app for us. That'd be a better gift of box chocolates bags. I'm David Brown. We'll see you tomorrow. Businessworld daily is brought to you by zero to PO a brand new podcast from octa a lot of startup stories. Just focus on the big wins. But being an entrepreneur's heart. And it can be lonely. If all you ever hear about his others, crushing it in zero to PO, you'll hear about the different stages of business growth, and the blood, sweat, and tears. It took for some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs to get to where they are today. People like the Mark Andriessen, and Ben Horowitz, and Netflix is Patty mcchord zero IPO is hosted by Frederick Carris co-founder of octa and Joshua Davis, contributing editor at wired the conversations they have are candid and the learnings are invaluable. You can listen to zero to wherever you get your podcasts.