22 Burst results for "East Anglia"
Awards Chatter
"east anglia" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"The smells, the way people behave, the color of the sky. I mean, it's all there. And I can move on. And so for me, that project of trying to nail Japan before it disappeared, from my head. And a very precious Japan it was as well. Was a matter of urgency. And I think that that's what gave me a big incentive to write those novels. Well, and it's just to connect those dots though. From that MA course, I guess at some point, submit some short stories, three short stories to the publishing house that you would later work with for years. They want to know if you have anything else. You turn over this thesis that you've been working or dissertation that you've been working on, which was, I guess, an early version of a pale view of hills. But at that point, when you first presented that to them, I don't think it was already set in Japan or did that change happen afterwards. And if so, what? Oh yeah, when I approached by, basically, it's like a lot of these things. I spent a lot of time banging on the door of recording companies. And guys, you know, saying, look, I'm the new kind of Japanese English Dylan. And nothing budged. But for some reason, when I as soon as I started to write stories, while I was at East Anglia, during the 9 months or ten months, I spent there. Whenever I sent them off, somebody wanted to publish them. I can magazine. And so these doors opened. And as you say, I mean, not only did literary magazines accept my stories, Faber and Faber, who are still my British publishers. One of the really great publishing houses used to be run by T.S. Eliot. He was the boss at one point. They said, oh, you know, we'll publish these stories in a new writer's anthology and would like to know what you've got a novel. And indeed, I was writing a pale view of hills. And so they didn't change. I just sent them the beginning of a pale view of hills. And they gave me a contract. They said, look, when you're when you're no longer officially doing this MA, here's a little bit of money. And it was a pathetic piece. But it was enough for me.
Opening Arguments
"east anglia" Discussed on Opening Arguments
"And now we get into the quotation. So we've mixed in quote mining from actual experts who encourage you to be careful with quotes from the cabal of anti vaxxers that we talked about earlier. So first we didn't talk about professor sir Andrew Pollard, who led the Oxford vaccine team. We don't have anything that will stop transmission. So I think we're in a situation where herd immunity is not a possibility. And I suspect the virus will throw up a new variant that is even better at infecting vaccinated individuals. So this is footnote 14. This is from the telegraph. You might think the sir Andrew Pollard indicates that we're probably not talking about an American doctor. And we're not. We're dealing with the head of the Oxford vaccine team that called for an end to mass testing so that Britain can just quote start to live with COVID. Professor anthropologist said that the delta variant could infect people who had been vaccinated, which made herd immunity impossible to reach even with the high vaccine uptake. So here's somebody saying, we're not going to get to herd immunity. So anyone, this is direct quote who is still unvaccinated? Will at some point meet the virus? We don't have anything that will stop transmission. So I think we're in a situation where herd immunity is not a possibility. I suspect the virus will throw up a new variant that is even better at infecting unvaccinated individuals. So time to stop doing anything. Paul hunter, Professor of medicine at the university of East Anglia, and an expert in infectious diseases told the committee the concept of herd immunity is unachievable because we know the infection will spread in unvaccinated populations and the latest data is suggesting that two doses is probably only 50% protective against infection. We need to move away. This is 50%. That's awesome. So you're telling me I can reduce my chances of spreading and getting it by 50%. That's incredible. You would think that would be good. We need to start moving away from just reporting infections or just reporting positive cases at bit into the hospital to actually start reporting the number of people who are ill because of COVID, otherwise we're going to be frightening ourselves with very high numbers that don't translate into a disease burden. Sir Andrew argued that if mass testing was not stopped, Britain could be in a situation of continually vaccinating the population. I think that as we look at the adult population going forward, if we continue to chase community testing and are worried about those results, we're going to end up in a situation where we're constantly boosting to try and deal with something that is not manageable. It needs to be moving to clinically driven testing in which people are willing to get tested and treated and managed rather than lots of community testing. If someone is unwell, they should be tested, but for their contacts, if they're not unwell, it makes sense for them to be in school and being educated. So this argument is, don't test because we're not going to get to herd immunity anyway. The vaccine is 50% effective. And again, legitimate argument, there's somebody who's making that. On the heels of that are where we start quoting from the guys we let off with. And the very next point is. Quote, based on my analysis of the existing medical and scientific literature, any exemption policy that does not recognize natural immunity is irrational, arbitrary, and counterproductive to community health. He did say that. J bad acharya is arguing that you can not that we should achieve herd immunity by allowing those who are, quote, naturally immune by having by virtue of having had the virus to continue to circulate in the community without being vaccinated. So you can tell that it is a grab bag of nonsense because everybody who signed on to the great Barrington declaration did so to say our public health policy should be about promoting herd immunity by allowing people kind of the equivalent of let's have parties for our children so that they can all share the chickenpox, right? That's a herd immunity argument. Next up we have, and this is just grotesquely out of context. This is sub point F and footnote 16, which says that a study of a SARS CoV-2 outbreak in July 2021 published in Euro surveillance observed that 100% of severe critical and fatal cases of COVID-19 occurred in injected individuals. The authors stated that the study challenges the assumption that high universal vaccination rates will lead to herd immunity and prevent COVID-19 outbreaks. Now, when we read that document, this is, again, published literature. It is nazo comio outbreak caused by the SARS CoV-2 delta variant in a highly vaccinated population in Israel as of July 2021. You might be thinking, Israel may not be particularly comparative to the United States. This was nosocomial outbreak of SARS CoV-2 delta variant infected 42 patients, 39 of whom were fully vaccinated, the attack rate was 10.6%, 16 out of a 151 among exposed staff and reached 23.7% among exposed patients in a highly vaccinated population, 16 to 26 weeks after vaccination. All cases were linked and traced to one patient. So what are the recommendations here? The recommendations is this exemplifies the high transmissibility of the delta variant among twice vaccinated and massed individuals. This suggests some waning of immunity, albeit still providing protection for individuals without comorbidities. However, a third vaccine dose may be needed, particularly in individuals with risk factors for severe COVID-19 appropriate use of masks, especially in high risk settings is advised. So more vaccine or vaccines, this is a pro booster research article that stands for the exact proposition, the exact.
Kottke Ride Home
"east anglia" Discussed on Kottke Ride Home
"Cot key. We're all familiar with this sound. But where did it come from? How did it become lodged in our public consciousness as an auditory indication that something villainous has just occurred? Amelia tait over at The Guardian recently dove into the sounds origins and how it evolved over time from a serious reveal of nefarious activity to a corny joke. So the sound more specifically referred to as a sting, a quick surge of music used almost like a sound effect. Think of a sound logo. This sting has its origins in radio dramas in the mid 20th century. Richard hand, a media professor at the university of East Anglia explained to Tate, quote, one of the challenges of radio, and it's the same now, as it was a hundred years ago, is how do you hook the listener? Those dramatic organ stings could have a powerful effect. They became cliched and we laugh at them, but actually what soundscapes can do can be extraordinary. And Tate adds that stings and sound effects claps of thunder, whistling wind. We're often performed live alongside the dialog back in the days before sound libraries. And Tate was able to dig up a few early instances of the dun dun dun sting in mid century radio shows, but speculates that the sting as audiences would recognize it might actually predate radio. Handbags this up by saying that radio usually adopted already popular tropes to listeners. Tropes from stage performances mostly. And Patrick feaster, cofounder of the first sounds initiative agrees. Fester says that similar stings with similar objectives appeared in a 1912 vaudeville sketch, paradine, melodramas, and that sketch called desperate Desmond, which you can listen to a recording of courtesy of the Library of Congress, link in the show notes, is filled with stings and sound effects that the narrator directs in various ways. Clearly playing on how the sound effects are recognizably used already in different ways in the melodramas that it's parodying. It doesn't use the exact done, done, done, one, but it's close. And the way it plays with sound cues indicates that even though some melodramas would continue using the sting seriously for decades thereafter, as early as 1912, audiences were aware enough of it to laugh at its usage. If feast or even thinks that the famous dun dun dun sting could have ended up with three notes instead of one because it exaggerated the silliness of the sting. And so it was the preferred version for parody. And parodied, it certainly has been. Countless movies, cartoons, and now YouTube videos and tiktoks have used the sting over the last century. And for any that have incorporated it into their creation over the last 38 years, they were probably pulling from one particular source. Shock horror parentheses a by composer dick Walter. Walter was hired by music in 1983 to produce four albums worth of musical phrases that would become the editors companion. He used a full orchestral lineup to make many of the stings that we still use in here today. Here's.
WSJ The Future of Everything
"east anglia" Discussed on WSJ The Future of Everything
"The pandemic changed the backdrop of many workspaces. I'm in a closet right now in my apartment in New York City, waiting for the giant buildings heat system to stop vibrating the entire space. Work from home can also mean staring into a backyard instead of out of an urban or suburban office window. And there's evidence that people have been taking notice of that life outside the window. Several reports of documented a dramatic jump in backyard bird seed sales since 2020. Sales of bird identification apps like the Merlin bird ID and eber have mushroomed. The national Audubon society reported that downloads of its own bird ID app nearly doubled in March 2020 from the same month in the prior year, and while there have been fluctuations in use, Audubon says last July, there was another 100% year over year increase in its app downloads. But an overwhelming amount of data show that the avian ensembles people here today that they think are so magnificent, they're actually, in many cases, sounding a bit thin to a trained ear. Doctor Simon butler is an associate professor at the university of East Anglia. He's the senior author on a paper published last November in nature communications that work to make an historical audio record of bird song over time. He did it because he wanted people to understand what it sounds like when we lose birds. There's lots of information coming through about changes in biodiversity. We know across North America. There was paper out after a few years ago reporting 3 billion birds being lost from the American air before now in Europe, we've had a similar paper out in the last few weeks recording 600 million birds in the last four decades or so. The paper butler is referring to their estimated that between 560 and 620 million individual birds have been lost since 1980. The research article was published last year in the journal ecology and evolution. Butler says that staggering loss can be hard for us to comprehend. They can almost be overwhelming and it's quite difficult to recognize what that means for our day to today life. And so we wanted to explore what the consequences of those changes might be for how we experience nature how we engage with nature and how we can inspire people to think about how they can address that biodiversity loss. Butler lives in Norwich, a rural part of England about a 120 miles northeast of London. And this kind of agricultural setting is where one would expect to encounter a more diverse avian population, but butler says it's also where the most dramatic avian declines are happening. That's being driven by agricultural intensification, loss of natural habitat and conversion to agricultural land, increased pesticide applications, all of those kind of factors that are designed to improve and increase yields from our agricultural land are also having negative impacts on the biodiversity associated with that. On paper, we see the numbers. We know they're dramatic. But they're difficult to notice when we go outside because we get used to what we hear. And butler and his colleagues wanted people to actually orally experience what they were missing. So the team used existing data to construct a simulated, audible record of declines in diversity and in individual birds. Utilizing data collected during bird surveys conducted by an army of citizen scientists. There's a long tradition of volunteers monitoring bird populations in their communities. Numerous groups do this. For decades now, volunteers go and they find the same spot each year and they go around the same time, and they look around, and most importantly, they listen. They document each bird they hear and see. The data from these counts are collected by numerous groups, including the Cornell lab of ornithology and the national Audubon society among others. Traditionally, citizen scientists do their work with a notepad and pencil, and many still do. Though some historical recordings might exist from a limited number of sites. But complete archival audio recordings from thousands of locations of bird counts over the years, they do not exist. So butler and his colleagues have been reconstructing what the birdsong and specific locations might have sounded like in the past. Based on the data collected during annual bird counts from over 200,000 locations throughout North America and Europe over a 25 year period. The team used data from the North American breeding bird survey and from the pan, European common bird monitoring scheme. And so we took those data as the foundations and we combined them with recordings of each individual species to construct a composite soundscape. So for example, they took data from a spot in Florida in 1998. So we started with an empty 5 minute sound file and then for every individual of a given species, we inserted a short clip of that species singing to represent it. That day, data from the survey showed 30 birds were logged from 9 different species, including morning jobs. The data from that day also included chuck will's widows, common nighthawks, Blue Jays, red winged blackbirds, eastern meadowlarks, northern cardinals, northern mockingbirds, and Carolina wrens. And we led up all of the individuals of one species and then all of the species into that same soundscape. So this is what that.
The Naked Scientists
"east anglia" Discussed on The Naked Scientists
"Next clue, this is a sound you couldn't normally hear with your ears. Sarafina got any ideas there? I have two haunches. The first one is is it wind on another planet? Interesting. And your second hunch? Is it the resonant frequencies of planets? Interesting. Well, we shall see as we get some more clues. Oh, I'm teasing you now, aren't I? John, it's over to you next. We have had a question in from listen at rohin, who asks, there's now a malaria vaccine being rolled out. Do you think we could wipe out malaria like we did wipe out smallpox? Yes, optimistically, I think we can, and not just with the vaccines. I think there'll be a number of different ways. But if you go back 400 years, malaria was much more widespread. So Shakespeare had the ague, which he probably think was malaria. And it was associated with swampy grounds. And as the places like East Anglia were drained properly, the mosquitos that carried the malaria disappeared. So through a program of getting rid of that family of mosquitos that carries malaria and some vaccines and some drugs that stop transmission and better bed nets, you could get to a place where we are malaria free. And remarkably in the last year, China became malaria free. And there are relatively few countries that now have malaria. So yes, I think we can achieve that. And not necessarily through vaccines or not. That's amazing. Such good news. What about everyone's favorite infectious disease, the common cold? Are we ever going to wipe that out? No. So some things just because it isn't one thing. Common cold is a whole collection of viruses, bacteria, funguses, anything that can kind of get into your nose and inflame it and cause you to make snot and mucus is a common cold. There are as many things under the sun that can cause those as you can imagine. Where does coronavirus fit on that scale between smallpox and flu then in terms of viruses stable enough that we could wipe them out? So coronavirus is there's lots of different coronaviruses where the one that has just kind of caused the pandemic is SARS CoV-2. So it's the second very severe recorded coronavirus in the last 15 years. But there are other ones that are kind of common colker and viruses that if you went around and swap people you'd find in these kind of endemic coronaviruses. In theory, they are more stable than influenza. So flu when it makes copies of itself, we describe it as leaky. So basically, when it makes copies of its own genetic material, it's like when you make a photocopy of the photography of a photocopy, each time you add it, you put in more and more errors. And flu kind of changes quite quickly over time. While coronaviruses have something called a proofreading ability, which is like somebody checking the photocopies and putting the original one back on and making kind of clean copies each time. So in theory, coronaviruses don't change as quickly as flu viruses. We have seen them changing in the last 18 months, but that's probably because everyone has had it and so it's had much more opportunities to change. And the more roles of the dice, the more changes you'll get. Well, Nessa, I've got a question for you now. I have seen in the news about a condor that is a huge type of vulture that has had chicks without mating with a male. How can that happen genetically? Because as far as I know, birds are like us and that they need both a sperm and an egg cell to combine to create offspring. Right. So Hugh I take your flesh eating duck and I raise you a parthenogenetic function. So parthenogenesis is the phrase we use for creating live young without mating. We've had hints before that this can happen in birds. But we've never seen it in species like condors and vultures, which are these huge, huge scavengers. The really weird thing about these condors that did it these female condors is they actually had access to males to fertile males. Normally we only see this thing in birds of producing eggs and young with no males under extreme conditions where there's no males around. But this time there were males. It's just for some reason the females decided not to bother with them. So it wasn't that there weren't no that the condors didn't have a man. They just didn't want a man. They just didn't want a man. They just decided that this time the vulture sisters were doing it for themselves. And these two females, so it happens twice. They laid eggs and those hatched and it was little male condors that came out. And it seems like what happened was when the female first started producing an egg. When you do that, you basically half the amount of your DNA because essentially each offspring gets half from mom and half from dad. But it looks like what the female database she halved her DNA and then thought, I'm not bother with that. I'll just copy this so that I end up with the right amount of DNA..
The Autosport Podcast
"east anglia" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"And the tales she tells that she was sort of entry secretary and for a meeting at snare to sort of end of season formula forward meeting, they had more inches than they could accommodate. So she went CP to browning, who was boss of the BR SEC at the time as it all got all these entries. Well, what we're going to do, he goes, oh, we've put on some heats. And more entries obviously they formulated an idea, which I'm told, it's generally build as Peter browning's idea. And it actually, it was only formula Ford racing. There was no there was no other car type of car on the bill. That weekend. And it's just interesting, we know Ian Taylor, a real talent, you know, successful informally free who should have should have gone further in the single seater realm, one the race, but it's just looking down through the results. I picked out, I think 6 future Formula One drivers, Tiffany Dell, in his low to 69 F, which he won in an old sport competition, and I can tell you how he won it. If you want. Yeah, he was forfeit his heat. Larry Perkins was third. Danny Sullivan was 5th, but had been running third in his Eldon until very close I think in the final laps he had a spin. Patrick neve, Williams Grand Prix engineering's first driver, hands binder, did a few races for 30s a few years later. And Ian Ashley, who was actually racing and former 5000 that year, I would afford. Came back to race and Alexis, but he didn't actually race it because apparently it developed an oil leak on the grid. But that's really interesting that, you know, even in year one, okay, many of those were British regulars, but I think I'd be right and say, I doubt if hands binder was. And the sort of preview in the pages of audible does talk about foreign visitors, and there were 90 entries for the race, even in year one, and 85 turned up, and old sports preview made a big play of the sort of festival atmosphere and talked about a party afterwards, and mentioned that they were going to be fireworks and go go girls. And that's not to forget the buffet as well. I can't forget about the buffet there, Gary. I mean, yeah, well you said the history is really interesting. First of all, years where it's Netanyahu. Do you know the reason that it moved to brands hatch in 76 of the reason behind that? Well, because that was sort of headquarters to say headquarters would be wrong, but that was the sort of more of the base of the BR SEC and MCD the circuit group thing incorporated brands. And Orton and at that time, Mallory park, I believe. So yeah, it was sort of made sense, I guess, I mean, people have told me that the BRS CC East Anglia set section was actually a bit miffed that brands had pinched it whether that's true or not because Peter browning, who is generally credited with the seed of the idea was was overall BR SEC boss. So I don't know how true that is. But I guess, I guess it just made sense to move it to the home of the club and the home of the circuit organizing body. And I think some people say, well, overtaking is not that easy, brands, but it's, you know, holding it on the brands in the circuit is a not that it was called the indie circuit in 1976. We were a couple of years away from that and the visit of IndyCars..
The Tennis Podcast
"east anglia" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"To my mom. Oh. Oh, happy birthday. Happy birthday. Katherine's mom. We don't usually do birthday shoutouts, do we? It just came to me. Monday, October 25th. Unless mom, you're listening to this knot on the day of its release, in which case, belated, happy birthday. Yeah, we have got guest edited, Dave, called teen for this week's podcast, Dave has come up with some of his own questions. In fact, his 16 year old daughter rose has helped him sift through the questions that we've had in from various bits of social media. He says, roses a bit of a tennis stato. She's always correcting me on who one and where and she even has this reputation at school. In our re where they were discussing equal rights for women. Very different to the one I once I had. The teacher was asking about tennis giving equal pay at the grand slams, then stopped and asked rose if this was just her at Wimbledon or at all slams having listened to the Billie Jean King editions, rose not only knew there was equal pay, but remembered when each slam went with equal pay. We like rose, don't we? Yes. Immensely. We like Dave as well. David actually works in ten years. He runs leisure clubs, but he staged stages, tournaments that the shrouds club in the place of place of my birth. Yes. And I think not the tennis club. No. I think I might have mentioned it on the show a few years ago when I attended one of his events and he put some great events. Yeah, and he's a massive supporter of the tennis podcast. And did you know did I ever tell you that I first met Dave when I was about, oh, 12. Did I ever tell you that? No, yes. No, you have, because this isn't. Yeah, he worked at a holiday camp in East Anglia, which I was a guest at, and he was one of the sort of sports organizers and my sister had a massive crush on him. Oh, this is really about. Although I remembered it as you had a crush on his sister. Oh, that's a twist that I didn't even know about myself. As Dave see me play tennis, David. No. Has he seen that fearsome serve, boom down? No. Before the net. He hasn't. No. Okay. It's a challenge match that we have promised to enact in the future though. Okay. And I have met his daughter, and she's lovely and his whole family are lovely. And anyway, delighted to have them as our guest editors. Well, his challenge for you today, David, is a bunch of very hard hitting questions, I have to say. Dave and rose have had their editorial hats on there. They've done his proud as well, I guess that it is always do. We've got some great questions here. Some of them have come in through social media or various channels that Dave and rose have sifted through as I say so. Are we ready to crack on? Yes. Okay, the first question I would like to hit you with courtesy of Dave and rose is thus. Will we look back and think that emirati kani's phenomenal U.S. open success did more damage than good for her career. She now heads into 2022 with a huge target on her back, and with incredible scrutiny from the press, despite only playing in 5 tournaments on the WTA Tour, had she lost in the first week at the U.S. open, would she have been able to build her career in a more structured way and ultimately have been more successful? Not that that's a massive sweeping hypothetical based question or anything, but who would like to tackle that one first? Well, we do love a massive sweeping hypothetical here on the tennis podcast, don't we? I do, anyway. Look, I think she'll be fine. Personally, my expectation is that she will be fine that there will be bumps in the road that there will be moments when she finds it all a bit much or makes a decision in can't understand the degree of scrutiny or has a run of bad results. This is human nature. It is not all going to go in a straight line from anonymity to worldwide success and global fame. And this is an incredible story to start her career one that I didn't see coming and nobody saw coming and which has just changed tennis. It really has changed tennis. Certainly here in Britain, it's given in an injection of life, which, well, I think we're all thankful for people that work in the sport and everybody watched her run was inspired by an enthused by. But it is, it is interesting as a case study as to whether it will cause problems for her that wouldn't have happened, had she had a more gradual development. Personally, I think you take what you can get. You just run with it. And I think she will be fine. The other ones that have had this sort of emergence are people like Boris Becker winning Wimbledon at 17, out of nowhere suddenly he is just so recognized. I do get a bit concerned by the reaction the sort of instinctive reaction to any quotes about her right now. I was reading this morning to trace Austin had said something on tennis channel about her coachings about radicalis coaching situation and how she thinks she should rehire Andrew Richardson and how a familiar face, et cetera, et cetera. Suddenly that's a headline. I just. Just calm down, everybody, calm down. I mean, it's she's had one match since winning the U.S. open and I think everybody just need can dial that down a bit. And but I think ultimately, I think this will be the launchpad for her. She may have a period of maybe even a year where not much happens. And.
The Cycling Podcast
"east anglia" Discussed on The Cycling Podcast
"We've got this race calendar. And i have well. It's got lots of other stuff going on. Like the cost is obviously huge. There was a lot of things that made it. Just not possible and felt quite confident when we could break the record sea level so i thought well why not and then if one day the opportunity arises go to altitude then. Maybe i'll have a crooked but yeah it was absolutely perfect for what we needed to do. And you just looked so fresh after you finish your straightaway back into road race again. How's it been making that change back to the road already so malek stop. It's news you. It was like coming off an off season almost because it had so much rest actually throughout september with the all i was doing was racing resting racing resting so when i call him with mike yesterday. The first three calls if the race afo pre like just a bit like locking kick and by the finnish kind of felt like hundred into it. So i'm kind of fully expecting. As the week progresses probably stronger. and how was it watching. Dan go for his Your fiancee down big and going his attend the next day. It was really fun i again. I thought it'd be really really nervous. No marion office when he races but again calm i was actually just enjoying it. I completely trusted like his plan. His logic his form he was going to do. And so yeah. I felt pretty confident for him. That's great you know. Was it nice to celebrate together afterwards. After israel dan out for dinner with his family. My family like friends the film crew and everything and We had we had to really funny thing. Well third behind following allowed and with leah kirkman of team. Dsm and i was looking back through the history of the women's tour Trying to get up to speed with the history of the women's talk. I've never covered the race. I've only been to a few stages that have been local to me in the partner of richard and orrin rose. You've covered the race last few additions for the cycling cost. But i noticed three. Riders started this race as ever presence having written and completed every stage of every edition of the women's tour lisa longer guinea while she was out of contention for the ever-present award on day one because she didn't finish the first stage. So that leaves just two standing and one of them. Lia coachman was third on stage today and when she crossed the line. She's on a second behind joss loudon. Yesterday i spoke to in a row. The rainy walsall and i asked her whether she was aware of the fact that she had written everyday of every race so far. Now i don't know if you know this but i think you're one of only two riders who's completed every single stage of every edition of the women's tour so far that's really cool to know. I've loved coming to this race. Ever since the first edition back in two thousand fourteen. I was going to make a joke. What brings you back. It must be the weather rainy walsall. Yeah maybe not the weather. But definitely the people i think you know. The fans are one of the best parts of this race. I especially love that. All the school children are always out cheering. Us on and help takes as on with the end podiums and things like this. Do you have any particular outstanding memories from any of the previous additions. I mean in fact good stage results good overall results but not the state twin yet. Yeah no statement but definitely have fond memories of being on the podium few times in a few stages and Yeah just remember. There's been some pretty epic stages with climbing in wales and Yeah i've just. I've just enjoyed the variety that this race always has to offer off to a good start yesterday. Tense place after quite hectic. Finale plan wasn't the that i would sprint. But unfortunately i was doing the widowed. And then we had that crash in the last roundabout so i tried to gophers for our team But cavern looking for a little bit of better lacks the next stages largely. Do you know who the other rider who's written every stage can have a gas is it. Is it christine measuring actually hung up on a little bit of an interest competition there and now it's really cool to know that i really enjoy coming to this race. Well of course leah coachman will be lining up once again tomorrow. What have we got in store tomorrow. We've got another ball game tomorrow. Another game beach bull. We're heading to the seaside excitement about a diet to say side. I mean it's quite the end. Isn't it because we'll finish him felixstowe as well. Hope you your buckets. From state to clack said we're going to have three Coastal finishes excellent so we climbing slowly up. The is essex east anglia. I think it is the east anglian coast so starting fit starting in shubra which i think is a revelation to you is just the name i didn't know i thought we were starting and finishing south and then i was trying to work out. What shoe berry ness sarah. What choudary nass was so. Yeah new new to me but yeah we're going to head to shubra ness finish in the south end. Martin is going to be pretty windy out there and because My make for some interesting can crossed. Make for some Breaking up of the pendleton or something An interesting finish their We believe that actually the original plan was to go kind of head to the donkey marshes kind of area and people who follow the domestic scene might know the area. Well is kind of a lot of Gravelly femme trekkie off. Rhody kind of parts. And i think unfortunately they haven't managed to get the route to go there though. I think he goes very close to that kind of region which might be familiar to people. But we're probably expecting sprint away. Tomorrow looks like it but the only cure the day does come pre delayed just after one hundred and temple and there's only one hundred seventeen kilometers race. Say day four people are going to get really tired is a three hour transfer from here over to south end so it really pushes things back like massage dinner. All your recovery's pushback you get less sleep. So we'll see what happens. Because i think that things might stop breaking up do like the fact that know the to a briton. I'm women's tour. Organizers are now reaching a point where they can start stretching out. i mean. I was the to britain where they went to the great arm. Which was a fantastic. Some finish when we can talk about the of this race being Favoring sponges but you know. I think the idea of taking the race on some kind of gravelly exploration would be fantastic so maybe in future year. That will be something they'll be able to do. It's something that the reid is ready. Relishes as well. We love that kind of terrain. Of course it comes with possible punctures and misfortune. But it's also really exciting and there is much appetite for that and i think a lot. More writers are writing off road a lot more in their training as well say they're getting better skills and it's just it's just fun. I think we saw today with the type of time-trial course that they chose. It would've been very easy just to do straight out on the main road and straight back on the main road or just to sort of tick the box of doing a time trial and to actually take out into the countryside a little bit and give the right at a proper challenge. Those corners old acceleration. And just throw a seat. If now and it has paid off in terms of the results. I mean demi bouldering. She risked at all and she got handsome reward But as i said at the start other than that it's it's a race of seconds which just hang highlight how well demi volunteering did today. We will see whether st works. Defend that jersey tomorrow. And then into the weekend exactly and lizzy you mentioned both long transfer and dinner so i think that's a very good cue to both get on the road and get eating. Some i guess fish and chips might be the thing or kaku wing close pathway relishing. That will put you. That's what we're going to relish. The writers can wellish like interesting terrain. We relish A good dinner or sure. Winkles or an energy food are they..
Bliss of the Abyss
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"Mostly special day for the banks have enough. Yes so the rest of the country gets a day off and in this case it was on a moon day so you get saturday. Sunday monday Which is really nice in been extra time so we out to play school east anglia on the east coast of this fine compare by the see the unsold. There was to see be before quite relaxed. And she'll love that me and he ne- and like on absolute gem on gloss door the gloss tour giblets on the website. Some ever saw desperate and decide. They want chuck everything in and get new job. Infielder completely unqualified for ellen. Glass doors have a look around. And chris yourself but gosto is good because it also shows you like jokes have gone and what happened. What was the process. Like the interview like Did you get did you. Did you accept an offer was positive experience. so come Read it so. They says the they accepted the offer. It was a positive experience an easy interview application. I applied through an employee referral. The process took one day. I interviewed at. Hsbc holdings interview the interview process with very simple. My dad knew the vice ceo the company so therefore might be processed was fairly basic and simple. The interview is very chill relaxed. I didn't feel any pressure tool. Because i knew i was going to get the job interview questions as your father. How was your father by the way how he very moved. He's just going to get the job visiting this spot not being qualified. I mean doesn't say what the job this fall. That's so funny. Is genuinely how people get get what he's the majority of people tell the majority of people get what speaking the slight list on to mctigue motif grandpa's still his. Take your teeth out of love. Show gonna these. Tv anything that completely disgusting apologize. If so don't apologize. Not yes awhile is going on. Tell you about much really here. Up to new ya'll in october should be really exciting. 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It's the is the infection hot and the blood loss and the dying pot. That's rebound in from this thing. It's very very hard to stop beating. See you wanna coagulate blood. But if his bleeding quite profusely you are a bit up shit creek. Because his very hard to seal on wet tissue and the coagulant so take quite a few minutes hormone talking about this good question. I will explain so for the last seven years this team that been developing this different approach to stopping bleeding which is glue right. So you're caught you bleeding profusely just slap a loaded gloom of keeps it in the whole point. You're not losing the but you need the blood shores a bit ham fisted beneath the buddies inside your body as opposed to gushing out from your body which is not what you want and so yeah this team have been making this glue out of bonn kohl's because they can stop meeting in seconds using this glib and of course they do these studies rats always all rat say i read so much 'cause rats the most like human is like morally they also tested pigs. But yeah what was the. What was the results study. It was like Takes something like remember. The percentage of the time but yes seconds as opposed to minutes and some people have minutes. They have a second so they use this gloom. They developed from barnacles. Kohl's which of course if you've ever tried to prise a. Barnacle of the hull of your ship didn't do nearly fifty luke of limb and he's very difficult this this barnacle in spite blue in the reason you can't get the hull of your vessel Is because it's made from extra sticky microparticles and silicon oil can do isn't it but you can thin the blood you can say in the blood you can glue the body. Unbelievable buddy. Imagine those spending seven years ago. Life to create barnacle glue of course the headline is great right. They attention grabbing headline. It's like we're gonna save millions of people with revolutionary. Technology will help it surgery. How by spending seven years studying nichols rock and roll brooke and ovo r.i.p charles m. yet that's right. That's right that's correct. What else can i talk to you about Sports is sports. Podcast of course number ten in the sports category in vietnam victim. Yeah it was. The madness of transfer day in the which is insane is basically this decor the window. A window closes of which you can register new players and Love frenetic activity right down to the wire so like ten fifty nine people furiously filing the paperwork. Did you manage to catch the deadline and go people like cristiano now those signing immensity night which is insanely exciting. Obviously messy moved to ps g. A bit earlier on.
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"east anglia" Discussed on D4WH - A Doctor Who podcast
"He's a big addicted. You and he was only in a couple of episodes teigen says the king john was the one who lost his clothing in the wash. What she means is that is the account king. george king. Can i keep calling him. king george. What she means is that is the account that king john whilst travelling to crush rebels lost some of his baggage in the wash and in east anglia. jimmy cold Our reports vary sangley the last few horses three two reports that he lost the crown jewels. Probably yes. I wouldn't be surprised because they would upon them. There wouldn't somebody's got washed away. Wow that's quite. that's quite a stray. That took him out. Took him out to do that. He's pulled the credentials They exploded flooded down the river. It's still gold. yes or float basic. I like the idea that he took them on porn stars. And the god's life giving fifty bucks for him and he like the crown jewels made the crown is not at fifty bucks fifty bucks or give you sixty sixty bucks. Got a drop some barons during his trip. To fight rebels he would come He was contracted dysentery from which he would eventually die one way to die. Yes did he take one. There was another one who died on the toilet from eighteen. Focus yet elvis. You may not like king king's there was a team. Radiate wasn't no might have been henry the fifth. i have to think about his own name. Henry's was at henry the sixteenth. There's so many. Henry's win sergio's is about to kill hugh the doctor asks for. Leniency and the king approves. Why why why would chameleon because we it's the robot being controlled by the mazda and then just goes it's urgency. Ask us be magic. Just the second sec later. He does say occasionally have layered agency Maybe sir thanks deduct sparing his son and offers him lodgings in the castle but seriously family's been dishonoured so why would you want anything from them..
Architecture Today
"east anglia" Discussed on Architecture Today
"The context of all these other people the most exotic and strange landscape out of all of them so i would just like zoom out a little bit and let's let's hear at. Where is this place. What's it like and how do you come to it. And how did you end up knowing how to place a building in a context that seems to me as somebody who lives in the west so strange and other yet i mean of course if you live there it said absolutely familiar and and and tragedy but one thing that's really a particular about a sangley how council has been over the years. It's how release thing this is. Stooges the mice connected to east anglia made its connections to the rest of the world through seafaring and then at rivers and once the river ceased to be the main form of transport. It was source of cutoff so the consequences of have any any hills or big rivers to drive industry Said the industrial revolution passed it. By which is why it feels like a place out of time because it effectively stopped the end of two very rich medieval. It's rich medieval history until kind of late twentieth century from the university towns. There wasn't much getting. There wasn't much industry which is which is why. I think i mean each pa. These it has sedentary particular qualities. But they're all very cohesive. So north norfolk where where this is It's it's a ring of Fisherman's towns along the coast of the built south Materials changed over time. Actually with a great deal of variation. It's the typical is what is treasure to end the various the bit surrounded unless observed in the brick and the the lime wash that black painted pan tiles. I mean they're quite extraordinary. Consistent and you know the feeling of those materials belonging to ans- scape as or indigenous not gonna buildings tend to do is incredibly strong and plant wanted something that was extraordinary as extraordinary as we could muster up for him with the knowledge that we're in the middle of conservation area next Buildings i mean. Interestingly i don't have a value conservation areas a listed buildings. I think the idea of of of preservation and making something that is suitable for its context. That's not going to upset the equilibrium but a place. I don't have any problem with the to the administration of it and the interpretation of the is often incredibly incredibly narrow. Say you know to what extent we want to make something that was will make something that belonging to another world place. I don't think the two needs to be separated. Because might take of making a building is can textually a conscious does not preclude it being different the same the lilia and i think what's interesting one of the reasons that i can tell. This is a mole building is that i suppose studied in a culture. That was quite straightforwardly. Modern was rooted in the modern movements and no architect that i knew really knew how to respond to historic place with any degree of subtlety and sophistication by what i mean. Is this a modernist response. And as the comes in response and to actually understand how you could do an extraordinary building that really does look at. What's in a very considered way and doesn't try to medicare doesn't try to be a pastiche of it but at the same time so draws out building that is extraordinarily without being avert extraordinary..
Architecture Today
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"If foles has just completed marriages she wants kickoff by telling us how you came by the project. Yes it was a cool from an engineer whose client he would be. The right fit for what he was looking for. And eddie seeing Before that did you have a very clear idea of what she wanted. When he came ta where he lives he lives in a house. Opposite the parenting bond. Say he. I came across probably when the nba dvd building. We did architecture was built right across the road from him. Say he knew we were up to doing something interesting. And subsequently david country his engineers working couple of houses who played it. And how much is it. An engineering challenge because obviously balancing bahn. You can kind of see why that might appeal to an engineer on the face of it. This like very conceited. Poetic difficult position but it doesn't look as though the engineering challenges anything unusual not particularly and i mean one bit. I mean come. We start to consider the building. I suspect the get the littler Was a challenge and the tree was a challenge and the the that flood resilience was necessary to consider just thinking about how it was going to be made and then how it was going to be constructed with the that was the challenge. Rather than how do you do something an amazing adventure newsmakers stand up. Let me go to peers from it. So pays you've looked at this building. Could you have toll states away that it was a mold. Architects building. just think. It's a really interesting question. And i think probably. Yes because it's it's quirky in a kind of unpredictable way and this there is a competition but it's a very unusual composition and i think working in a context. This is really hard and it's a very particular context and he could argue that you kind of harvey need architecture if you look at where this building is. There's a series of buildings that have evolved over many years and most of them have been designed by an architect most of them on self conscious. And you have all those sort of haphazard encounters of building next to another that above old over three or four hundred years but it is a very strange and unusual placement meredith. And i went to australia about three or four years ago to talk in a context. People were talking about India and exotic to our minds places meredith gave a talk about east anglia and it seemed in.
EV News Daily - Electric Car Podcast
"east anglia" Discussed on EV News Daily - Electric Car Podcast
"I read about this. Sally at the front seats. They say flip around one hundred ninety degrees. You can all dine around a central table going to pop up roof so again. That's when you wanna sleep to upstairs has little pop up brief it's cozy. It's not big. And of course is based on the will. I came to london taxi. The black cab then came the van version of that. Which is i. I've not seen them driving around by gather really popular again because you can do a lot of miles on electric you can plug in and charge on cheap electricity but if you have got together as extra miles it has the range extender the hitch i would say a path from the top hitch is it starts at sixty two thousand pounds. That's not cheap. But you know what if i had a company of sticking ordering for five days and then 'cause camper van motorhome hire is really not cheap by the way And rent these out and be fantastic so could tell people. Hey if you going to book your campsites book it with an electric hookup as you would with a caravan or motorhome charge up overnight so it's cheap. Just use the engine to get to where you're going and i'll tell you why sixty miles range is fine. Because you wouldn't do that if you're going on a one or two week camping holiday in many places i could go round. Devon and cornwall for instance in the south west and i'm not a million miles away but is it would still be a holiday for us. We've taught kent before we used to a to high stinky diesel converted panel van. It was vico long wheelbase high-top a years ago before i was into a big house. Stinky two liter turbo diesel thing and we soared loads to he told kent a normally. I think ken is useful forgetting to france or living outside of london. If you're a commuter stunning stunning. County rarely beautiful. We told east anglia. The ottawa When we had motorhome back in the day and i would use this for something similar. Sixty miles day day. If you are touring somewhere. Like devon and cornwall and you wouldn't do between thirty and forty miles helping campsite to campsite go to replace senior pubs restaurants. New things to see and do. And then if you go if you always book your campsite with electric hookup. Then you're just charging up. Venus he had never dip into the electric range extended. But it's there if you need it it's gonna plug sake. I think this is really good and The ceo of l. vc. york hoffman. Says and i quote the camper..
The Gargle
"east anglia" Discussed on The Gargle
"They have made a replica of noah's ark and i believe the the is that the vessel will remain detained until the deficiencies have been put rights and ally keith. Keith efficiency conaco to be able to float during a flood. Yeah well i'm fascinated by the arc of this arc. Which is apparently not built to be seaworthy. But i mean they never say in the bible that god gave noah a blueprint he just said to build a boat. Was he a boat builder. I don't know. I haven't read the bible for a long time. It's really great film with russell. Crowe is basically a documentary. If you ever want to learn about benjamin how do you feel about the auk. I don't mean to be rude. you know. People from britain will know this people say that east anglia is a is a bit backwards as an area but the presence of noah's ark is a bit on the nose i think it says it's it's only half the size of the arc as described in the bible which means that they would only be room for one of each animal which is a particularly tragic version of the story where noah and his family just slowly watch every species of animal on earth. Go extinct in front of them on the funny thing about the newest story is so i i was brought up a christian. I used to go to sunday school. And no is quite a big part of when you're is quite kinsey stories next goal animals in it and is one that kids can really get into a lot of childhood. Education is very animal based for the maldon. wilt you talk about the kind of the saw chasms about modern technology. You think that. I've never needed to know what cow sounded like really. I've certainly never needs and a dinosaur. But they touched on quite a lot Threat primary school. But yeah as an adult. Then if you go back to the noah story and you keep reading after the bit where the boat lands it gets super weird. Because i mean there's a kind of incenting on because obviously there's only one family left on earth but also there's a whole bit where noah sees his son's wife naked or something and then no no. That's not right he. He builds a vineyard and then gets drunk and then gets naked in front of his family. And then i would have shame. He has to go and live in a tent for bit. I think this is different. So different russell crowe film. I think that's the one vision i mean. First of all let's launch. Podcast way you you tell badly. Remember bible stories. I think again. This is a wonderful idea. The idea of a shame tent for people who do things that are embarrassing. Because it's so often we have these embarrassments in regrets and it's very difficult to figure out when you've moved past them. When you've probably atoned shame i really. I believe i believe in like an infidelity. Shed and ashamed tent in unfaithful. You have to build a thing and then anytime you have a fight with your wife for the rest of your life. You pointed the shed and be like well. I built the shed. We've missed edinburgh last year. But i feel you're just describing festival that's a spiegel ten lightning that's very true. Call it the shame. Tens as well. You'll see things you'll be embarrassed about this. Shame there's a replica of noah's ark outside and inside a clowns every edinburgh venue there's always a clown inside. Sometimes he can't see the clown person who's pretending not to be a clown which brings us to the end of today's show. Let's flip through our ads as some anti for mood..
Nopeville
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"Yep so that's the jersey devil just mosey on over here and dog lovers. Beware of this particular canine upi. We're bringing you black shuck. Sometimes known by other names such as old shuck old scarf shug monkey let yep okay as it is believed to be able to take on other forms depending on where you hear the tail so the other could be a goat or donkey or nobody ever said a monkey but that name implies that there's a monkey version other somewhere that's your button The most commonly agreed upon appearance of black shuck is a larger than average dog with long mangy fur and large fiery red or orange is possibly even just one i in the center like cyclops doc. Creepy obviously black. Yes from the nineteen o. One novel highways and byways east anglia by william alfred dot it is described as such he takes the form of huge black dog prowls along dark lanes and lonesome field footpaths where although his howling makes the hearers blood run cold his footfalls make no sound. You may know him at once. Should you see him by his fiery. I he has but one and that like the cyclops is in the middle of his head. Coaching encounter might bring you the worst of luck. It is even said that to meet him is warned that your death will occur before the end of the year. So you will do well to shut your eyes if you hear him howling shut them even if you are uncertain whether it is the dog fiend or the voice of the wind. You hear and quote until the ominous now you may be wondering why the name black shuck. Yeah the name shuck actually comes from the anglo saxon shoka which means demon ooh legends told around many areas in britain most commonly the areas of east anglia claimed that a spectral dog haunts coastlines graveyards. Churches misty marked lonely rose or the hills around villages like the hander baskervilles. How all mentioned actually okay but yes okay. It is said to appear most commonly on moonlit nights and especially in thunderstorms. So when it's super dark out or you aside from the lightning then. This creepy just flashes into existence. Many areas that tell tales. Believe that to meet or see black shuck is a death omen and that the person involved will have death or misfortune visited upon their lives within the year or even week depending again on where you hear it so you may not have as long as you think. That's like a long time a week vs like i'd like to believe the year but what if it's true that it's a week that's not figuring live at one week to the fullest and then see what happens however the lore of black shuck it's muddled in easily with all lower surrounding black dog such as the grim so the citing of grossly black dog may not always be an omen of death and may even be a sign of protection. So you never really know. Okay that's just confusing. It's either gonna kill you in a weekend of year or it's a good boy. Say you've got to gamble and see. What happens burgess. Closer is just never look at the black dogs are howling. I'll just say all dogs are beautiful. The cambridge goes to our website made mention of a story of woman told them of having been assisted by black shuck in finding the main road on one. Move most night So she was assisted by blackjack or could have been a grim or could have been a grim. who knows. I'm so confused you'll never know they're all big blackhawks disappeared. The most famous story of black comes from fifteen seventy seven written by..
KTAR 92.3FM
"east anglia" Discussed on KTAR 92.3FM
"App. It's the doctor Bob Martin's show, Tom, There will come a time when you can make it. All right, Dr. Bob marching back with you if you want to join us here on the show with a question about your health or a health comment Where you'd like to get a very effective, safe and effective protocol for reduction of risk of covert infection. I'll be happy to share what I do and what I have my family do. Our number into the program. 6022775827602277 K T. A R. At 6022775827. Let's talk Herd immunity. Now, as promised. You've heard about herd immunity where the concept of it is that enough people get Uh, An infection, whether it be natural acquired or artificial, and they build up immunity to that disease going forward. In other words, what you're doing is you're training the immune system to recognize it. So the next time You're not as likely to get it or the symptoms won't be as harsh. That's the basis of herd immunity. And the goal has always been that. You know, if you get enough people that have Antibodies against these marauders. He's infections, then you're you're going to be protected and the others around. You're going to be protected. Well herd immunity. And you hear that's part of the motivation that the so called scientists will tell you the reason why you need to get a vaccine. Is because It will help us get to herd immunity, which will help solve the dilemma with mankind right now, with this pandemic. So they're saying, Let's just get that going here already. Let's get it going. Let's get Let's make sure that we get 50%. Then it was 60 and they moved the goalposts constantly. Found she did it recently. And you know, it's sort of like reinventing it over again. Motivate people lie to them. Now he's on 70 to 75%. If we just get 70 to 75% knowing that people are balking at this thing, there's We're reading the same stuff you are, and I am about people dying from adverse reactions and getting all kinds of allergic reactions and auto immune like reactions and stuff like that, that you're not going to hear about the lame stream news. Media. And so herd immunity. That's an interesting thing. The government. Vaccination program. May not ever be sufficient to achieve herd immunity. Even if every single person is vaccinated. That's what new research is saying. This is out of the University of East Anglia. Researchers model the effectiveness Of a wide immunization program using the ox Ford And Fizer vaccines taking into account highly transmissible Cove in 19 variant. They found that the on leeway to reach herd immunity would be to vaccinate every Single person, including Children. They say the data for recently licensed Moderna would be similar to the Fizer results. And the study recommends that all of course, health and social care professionals should receive 95% in their words. Uh, Vaccine. Fizer murder no vaccines to prevent a symptomatic spread to patients and vulnerable people. Now remember Dr Anthony Fauci, about What percentage of population would need to be vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity about 70 to 75, right? That's them. So his words There's all kinds of Ill advised predictions that he has made I know he tries hard to know he means well, but he's in a soft science folks. We don't know this is new. This is all experimental brand new stuff never before seen of vaccine has been fast tracked. We know little or nothing about it Long term, especially short term stuff's already starting to break out. Steps already starting to come to the surface. We hear all kinds of ill advised predictions. Estimates of herd immunity. All we need to do is get on board. I've heard 52.5% is all we need 69%. Then it moves to 70.4 80 to 93 Pick a number Any number. Just pick a number. Nobody knows nobody really knows. And due to the rapid response nature of this research, it has never been Piri viewed. It's just not is This has been not enough time. It's on an emergency basis, and I pray that the vaccine is gonna work. Any vaccine. I pray that it worked for those who choose to have it. I just choose not to have it. Based on experience and the information that I have available to me as a doctor. Now you have to make the decision for yourself individually. Whatever decision you make, it's the right one on your behalf. That's your prerogative. You're in America. Why should you be forced to do something against your will like something is risk is taking a vaccine, which we know little or nothing about. And having that go directly into your bloodstream. You see, we get sick. And it goes through the normal pathway like you get it through your nose. Or your mouth or your eyes. And the hits the mucus membranes. Your body gets a chance to set up an immune reaction in the manner in which it was designed to Meaning? You know, it's a slow, you know, cycle as opposed to The difference in a vaccine going straight into your bloodstream. It's like Walking outside of a sauna bath, which is about 180 degrees under 90 degrees and jumping into a lake of frozen water. You can do it and people do it. And they, especially in Sweden and Finland, but It would be pretty harsh the first time and maybe you wouldn't like it and your body may not like it. They let you would adapt. But in this case, it's you know, some chemical some, uh Nano. Regulated..
WNYC 93.9 FM
"east anglia" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"I'm Tanya, mostly in Los Angeles, and I'm Rachel Martin in Washington, D C. We're going to turn now to the United Kingdom, which is under another national lockdown to combat a surgeon coronavirus cases. Over 19 deaths in the UK are now approaching a loss of civilian life not seen in Britain since World War two. Paul Hunter is a professor and epidemiologist at the University of East Anglia. The last few weeks have been pretty dire. To be honest. And the impact on the health service in particular is being very part for more. We're gonna turn to NPR's London correspondent, Frank Langfitt. Good morning, Frank. Hey. Good morning. Rachel. Tell us more about the conditions right now in hospitals there. You're really bad, I think the worst than we've seen so far. 35,000 covert patients in hospitals right now, more than 1200 dying a day. That's a record level. Take Northern Ireland hostels there almost completely full over the weekend. There were people in the hospital's administrators were actually advertising on social media, asking For off duty health workers to come in one official up there, said the hospital's air facing into the abyss now here in London. It's not a lot better, cogent Conta. I was talking to him earlier. He works in an intensive care unit here and he said, where he is there time for they're running out of the oxygen that they use when they're transporting patients around the hospital. This is what he said. The most number of admissions is much higher now than it was back in March last year, when it was the peak. We're now seeing a virus that is more transmissible, but also you don't have the same lockdowns of spirit that we had back in the first lock down in in 2020, which means that we're expecting Seymour more patients. No. No reason I should add. This hasn't just been bad for patients. It's also taken a huge toll on health care workers here as it has in the states. There's a study out this morning from King's College. London found nearly half of people working in intensive care units during the first wave when they were surveyed. Reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress disorder and even drinking problems. So I mean, how has gotten this bad? I mean, we heard the doctor up there, saying people are just worn down by all the restrictions, so they're not being a safe as they were earlier in the pandemic is that what's largely to blame? That's one factor. I mean, he's absolutely right. I think people are burned out by lockdown. Police are still breaking a parties and card games. Another point is that the variant has been a huge factor. It's as much as 70% more infectious. And the other thing here is that You can never really develop effective test track and trace a system which is kind of astonishing, considering how long we've been dealing with that here in other countries, you see systems where their people on the phone all the time they're following up with people making sure they're quarantining. We don't really have that here and again. Paul Hunter, who just listening to out of the University of East Anglia, this is the point that he made. Having a text saying, Yeah, you should isolate isn't enough Having some the phoning you up and then telling you, you should be self isolating. And then nothing else happens isn't enough. That's bean really at the heart off why we have been able to control the epidemic. So I mean out of that I hear him, saying there needs to be more accountability that people there needs to be more mechanisms to ensure that people are abiding by these restrictions, But that's that rubs up against civil liberties issues. It does. I mean, they have emphasized that, but it also rubs up against competence. I mean, this system trust track and trace has got to work in order to finally get out of this. The other thing and answer to this is frankly, the vaccine. The government here is delivered 2.3 million doses, hoping to get out 14 million later on, but it's not coming fast enough. Mm. NPR's Frank Langfitt from London. Thank you, Frank. You're very welcome. Rachel. President Trump made a trip yesterday to the southern border. He went to highlight his immigration agenda, which he calls one of the signature accomplishments of his presidency..
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The Horned Helm
"Hey welcome to stuff to blow your mind. My name is Robert Lamb and Joe. McCormick and today. We're doing the horned helm. This is going to be one of our essentially one of our invention themed episodes, but I decided. You know we really need to come back to armor, and the best place to start with armor is really the helmet I think the helmet is one of these wonderful things to consider because on the one hand, there is the more sort of combat, centric and medieval. And even fantasy idea of a Hillman Sifi. Fantastic with the concept, but at a very basic level, I feel like we all have some experience wearing a helmet taking this bit of artificial exoskeleton, slipping it over our own skull, and then enjoying its protection. Do you remember the scene in cone heads? Where it? It is revealed that Dan. Ackroyd Cohen Head Bell Dr Enjoys driving a motorcycle, but he's not a fan of helmet laws. No I. Don't remember this. Does he have a? A weird helmet or he just he can't wear human humans. I would imagine that's the source of his frustration. Because seems seems like bell. Dr Is actually normally pretty much rule follower, but but yeah he doesn't like the helmets, and I think it's probably because he has to get one custom made man. I haven't seen that in forever, but I do remember it had a really fun. Stop Motion Monster towards the end. Yes, yes. Bell Dr Scott to fight one with his Gulf skills. It also has a great line that for some reason is is just used for all occasions around our house, which is your phone is too young. Well, you know I. Don't remember if they wore helmets in that at all the more like space centric cone heads, but I feel like there was some sort of a horned crown that one of the more yeah I think. That's right so one of the we're. We're going to be discussing helmets in general, but but one thing that we're also going to discuss. Here is the idea of the horned helm a helmet with horns on it. It's it's an ancient motif in human civilization, and it ties into some earliest ceremonial practices. Practices and models of imaginative thinking. There's also do something so elegant about the idea thing that may be worn upon the head, and in doing so transforms the individual from a mere human into something, symbolically different a hybrid of human embiid. He's channeling the archaic chaotic gods of the Hunt. Oh Yeah I mean it's very therapy. It's what you see in those ancient cave paintings that so exciting when you start to see the human and the animal forms join together, suggesting fantastical thinking it's clearly there in the horned helmet as well. And and and so when you see these ancient motifs, one example that I was looking at before we came in here today. Was Robert Familiar with the the Sutton? Hoo Helmet? Oh, yes, yes, the sudden new helmet I. Had Papa Picture of it, but I this is one of these that I remember from an early age seeing perhaps on the cover of National Geographic, but it was certainly featured in some sort of Historical Book that I had access to his a kid. Yeah, it's just spectacularly creepy with these hollow is the way the mustaches rendered on the the plate of the face covering. I think it also had leather component when it was actually worn, but it's this decorated Anglo. Saxon helmet from I think it was from the seventh century. was buried in this in this ship burial somewhere in east. Anglia and I've actually seen this up close. And there are replicas of it that are really cool, because they reproduce the artwork that would have been originally visible on the sides, and although it's got all these panels over it, basically, it's a helmet covered with like comic strips, and in all the little panels there are scenes depicted in. In one of them shows these figures will like human shaped figures with horns, apparently wearing some kind of horned helmet. Oh, also evidence of Hornet helmets on a helmet. Yes, wonderful, yes, but it doesn't necessarily show the the characters wearing horned helmets say going into battle it appears to have more kind of a ritual religious significance surrounding the horns. Yes, in in this seems to be basically underlying the earliest versions of of this you know horned helmets go back thousands of years as far back as a twelfth century. See we see this in Cyprus Bronze Age Europe. and. The generally the idea is that yeah, this probably has its origins in in against symbolic tinkling thinking and ritual, and the idea that you're transforming. You're becoming something else. Which of course has a role in combat as well in a row and intimidation sort of role in the basic? behavior of making yourself look larger than you are. But, but then there's also this. Imaginative. Side to it there is this ritual aspect of mill, melting, man, and beast,
The Book Review
Medicine in the Middle Ages
"Jack Hartnell joins joins us now. He is normally at the University of East Anglia but he joins us from Pasadena much better weather there. And he is the author of a new book called Medieval Bodies Life Life and death in the Middle Ages. Jack thanks for being here. Thank you so much for having me. Let's just begin with the question of what was different about the human body and the way in which it lives in died in the Middle Ages compared with now. Well that's the big question. I guess the question that runs through the whole of the book I guess the first thing to say is that what we think of as the Middle Ages even just the terminology that we use to describe this period as a kind of sandwich he won one in seems to refer to time after what people and history of until after the kind of the chief of ancient Greece in Rome so maybe the period begins around the five hundred and something before the rebirth. The release on same ideas in the fifteenth century or the Sixteenth Century depending on where we're talking about in Europe so we're talking about the whole of the tanks in Europe the Middle East North Africa so basically the world around the Mediterranean for the best part of a thousand years so that's a lot of different people different cultures and a lot of different approaches to the body. Potentially one of the things that I think. It's really important when we talk about. This field is to acknowledge that the difference in in in fact what's happening say in Europe and this is potentially very very different conceptually to what's happening in other parts of the world as well so we try and be quite focused in what I think and write about but broadly speaking again one of the interesting things is where we go to try and learn more about what is actually relatively misunderstood moment in the past so also a different kind of written sources that we can turn to but one of the things I'm particularly interested in as an historian is he's the kind of other kinds of traces of the body and it's kind of a cultural prominence might leave in visual culture immaterial culture and also we might. Let's turn with colleagues Bioch- Eulogy to actual physical remains of humans to find also two different things so to answer your question what the body is or how people can see who it really depends on some ways way. You'll look. I'm looking right now at the cover of the US addition. And it's a really Kaushal. I put it bloodless depiction in a way of kind of gory. Amputation of a leg and a replacement presumably with a with a wooden lag as conducted by what looks to be religious men but also with the assistance of several angels one of sort of carrying the dead lower limb away and the fellow. This is being done to is lying. There is closed his head kind of wrapped wrapped up. What are we seeing here? And there's no blood there's no blood so it's a really interesting image and one of the reasons why we wanted to put on the cover of the. US Edition. Was it really sums up all of the many different complicated. I cost me so I was just talking about so the image is actually from an altarpiece so a large wooden panel painted in oil paint made in Spain probably the very end of the fifteenth century and sometime in the fourteen ninety S. We think it's actually in the wellcome collection in London which is an amazing collection of history of medicine. And as you say you have these two men seemingly go about an attention This isn't a normal amputation. Things that's really important to say. And this comes up with the end of the book this object in discussions of amputation in various kinds of medieval surgery array European medieval surgery. especially is that Hudson. Petitions were very rarely on taken. This is a moment in which medical the efficacy of surgery in particular Akilah especially what we considered to be serious surgeries things like I'm petitions. It's not something that's often attempted. It's known to be very dangerous and often very unsuccessful zestful and so in a sense. This imports the world of kind of ill health from a more secular world and places instead in a spiritual one so the two people who are undertaking. This miraculous surgery are in fact. Saints the pair of Dr Saints Cosmas and Damian who are often identified identified as a pair in European medieval Christian would actually in Byzantine just. Wow they're very popular science in the Byzantine world so in and around the eastern Europe and Greece in. What is today Turkey in the Middle East and they are two doctors who were became kind of early saints of the Christian Church and often figures amongst many other things biggest biggest who appealed to in times of heating and this is actually story that's taken from the miracle narratives which surround these two saints and the story goes like this guy has has some kind of problem with his leg? Some text described as a cancerous growth others as a much more kind of irritation of the skin of the see. It may be as Almost a kind of deadening of the leg either way is like is in trouble and he falls asleep one night and dreams that he is visited by these these two saints who take Lenk Im. PT With The kind of stories talk about golden instruments and kind of be useful very unscaled instruments. That's right delicate. Fine things with the assistance of angels and replace it with a wooden like as it does maybe seemed like but actually with the leg of an African man who had died the previous day This leg is miraculously grafted on. And surely enough the man awakes to discover that his leg has in fact been amputated and it was. It wasn't necessarily a dream or wasn't dream it's been made real upon waking and he goes and continues to pay homage to the saints in. Thanks so it gives us a really interesting idea All firstly the practicalities of some parts of medieval medicine. People are aware it's dangerous to do this kind of thing so the fact that is successful is in itself a miracle but the very idea that we're talking talking about miracles and medicine as being a spiritual concern. I think drools back to to thinking a little bit about how in some ways similar today but in some ways right differently today especially in the often heavily religious context of the late Middle Ages how healing could be seen kind of boldly health and sickness could be seen as the physical moral spiritual so one to which we tend to a doctor a real life doctor physician or surgeon or apothecary or midwife but also in the Middle Ages to our spiritual limits of curious. It's quite striking image and mom which puzzled as interesting things together
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Up Again. What Now, Climate?
"Support for this podcast and the following message. Come from internet essentials from Comcast. Connecting more than six million low income people to low cost high speed internet at home. So students are ready for homework class graduation and more. Now, they're ready for anything in Poland climate negotiators from around the world are meeting to figure out how to keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. The task looks harder than ever as NPR's. Christopher. Joyce reports. New research shows emissions are getting worse for three years. The news about global emissions of the biggest greenhouse gas carbon dioxide was pretty good. They were leveling off. But then they started to rise again in twenty seventeen and they're still going up. Rob Jackson is a climate researcher at Stanford University last year, we thought was a blip or could be a blip. But it isn't this year were up again the second year in a row and emissions arising the slowdown. And then the uptick are largely the result of. What's been happening in China? Their economy has been slowing a bit, which is one reason the mission stalled. But now the government is trying to boost growth than are green lighting, some coal projects that had been on hold. India is also using a lot more coal as the government tries to bring electricity to millions. Who don't have it writing in the journal environmental research letters Jackson notes that Americans are using way less coal now. But like most everyone else in the world, they're using a lot more of another kind of fossil fuel. It's cheap gasoline were buying bigger cars, and we're driving more miles per vehicle. Another hurdle reported in the journal nature this week China is cleaning up its air pollution. That sounds great for pollution, weary Chinese citizens. But some of that air pollution, actually, cools the atmosphere. It blocks out solar radiation, less pollution. Ironically, could mean more warming some climate experts meeting in Poland are eager to point to successes rather than a Lou. Coming carbon apocalypse like Corine mccarey from the university of East Anglia in Great Britain. She says take a look at clean energy growth. Ninety owner and wind power. Yeah. Hasn't been investment by government, and by businesses and wind and solar energy. And these investments have driven down to cost down to where renewable energy can compete with coal for new power plants, but renewable energy is far from replacing fossil fuels and the gauche eaters in Poland. Just got a rude. Reminder of how hard that will be in France a proposed tax on gasoline meant to cut consumption caused widespread rioting the French government quickly put that idea on ice. Christopher Joyce NPR news.
Today
Wild flowers are overpowered by exhaust fumes in Britain
"Healthy the conservation charity plant life says well flows are being driven from britain's roadsides because nettles and brambles a thriving on the nitrogen and vehicle fumes and other plants can't compete the charity says it's been a twenty percent decrease in the diversity of vegetation and that's led to a decline in the insects which depend on the plants the government says nitrogen emissions will steadily four as vehicles become cleaner over coming decade and it is now six minutes past six and philip avery is at the weather center morning phil tom very good morning to start the days forecast with east anglia in the south east of england are pick you out only because it's a wee bit breezy here than the rest of england and wales and there's a fair amount of cloud coming in off the north sea as well and that has enough about it for there to be the odd passing shower but many even here we'll stay dry and you're not with the chance of seeing some sunshine either temperatures on the north norfolk coast though pegged at about twelve degrees north sea not overly warm yet at this time of year become away inland newbie closer to about seventeen eighteen possibly nineteen degrees or so the rest of england wales dry find sunny justify across the piece there's a little bit more client to be had in the far western komo's elza cillian up through the coast of western wales but here a dry day some inland spot somewhere between about fifteen and twenty will cover it northern ireland a good deal more clouds for good parts of the day the maybe some early brightness through andhra mundane but i think the client will win and it might just do enough to produce a sponsor drizzle but many many of you here we'll stay dry threat today fourteen to about seventeen will cover it you should feel every bitter they're given the won't be too much in the way of wind here nordea will there across the greater part of scotland northern or western parts of scotland should see a fair amount of cloud threat again there is just the chance of a spotter drizzle that's the exception to a dry rule further to the south and east where it's a lovely day a lot of sunshine around a just wonder if any of the north sea fog may just move onto.
Today
Certain common medications tied to 30% higher dementia risk, study finds
"System is the most efficient way to run the hfs with an insurance model likely to be more costly the government's decision to leave the customs union after brexit will be debated by mp's today there'll be no binding vote but the debate could increase pressure on theresa may if some conservative mp's join labor and the snp invoicing opposition to the plans a study has linked widely used medications including for depression and bladder conditions with an increased risk of dementia but experts have warned the findings published in the british medical journal should be treated with caution is our health correspondent james gallagher well the study found is clear but what it means is more hotly debated issued people with dementia were more likely to have taken anti cholinergic drugs which acts on the nervous system years before they were diagnosed the link was found when the drugs were used in depression and bladder conditions but not in hay fever the researchers at the university of east anglia concluded doctors should be more careful about prescribing these drugs.