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Bloomberg Radio New York
"east west" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Is his biggest concern, winter says he's a reasonable status. He sees a reasonable stasis overall for the economy, spoke to France in lacquer, the Qatar economic forum. Of course, we're worried about the debt ceiling, but I heard the reassuring comments both from President Biden and Steve from McCarthy yesterday. I have to think these guys know what they're playing with. I don't care. I think the structural resistance of inflation to come back down. That's the biggest concern. Not right at this moment, but just as that plays out over time, what's economic growth look like? I've been very impressed by the resilience in the U.S. and Europe, and of course this region, the Middle East is booming. Asia is booming. India's booming. Just fight higher interest rates. There's a lot of money in the Middle East. Do you think they're after a bank like yours? Look, I think everybody in the world would love to own a piece of center charge your bank because it's from bank. We're doing well. We've got the super interesting footprint across Asia Middle East and Africa. So you're a takeover. And we're cheap. Like I say, if somebody wants to come and say, we could add more value to this bank than what you're doing today, where you're growing it at double digit growth rates, profits it. Substantially higher. You can have an idea on how to do something better. Please let us know. We'll come in. But the fact is we're a global bank today. We're adequately scaled for the environment. We're growing quite nicely. That's all I'm focused on. What's the hardest thing being a bank right now? Is it? How do you deal with China? Right at the moment. I think everybody is very focused on liquidity. So even though we are, we as a bank and I think the banking industry broadly is extremely liquid. And will remain liquid even after we go through a period of quantitative tightening or whatever. But the rules change when Silicon Valley bank went bust and then credit streets went through a week later. So everybody is looking hard at whether the deposits are as sticky as we thought. I think that as so many things that made it through these testing periods, will the industry will be fine here. I'm sure senator Trevor will be fine. So that's the immediate concern. I think in the longer term from a banking perspective, of course, we've always got an eye on the east west tensions. But the best thing that happens to our business is we keep trade levels very high, which is what the record record levels and trade between China and the U.S. just as an example. But China is accelerating its pace of opening up. Opening up is capital markets. And for a bank that structurally a connector, that's a good thing. That's a good thing. And how can you be sure that it's opening up for real without a step forward to step backwards? Because we're sometimes hearing messages from the Chinese authorities. I think when you look over really over the decades now, China has been sort of race ahead this holiday to bit race ahead. I think that's quite normal. The structurally, China is part of the global economy in a very, very big way. And wants to remain part of the global economy in a big way. In order to do that, they need to liberalize the arrangements for capital and goods and services moving in and out of China. That's been a steady objective for decades now. It's accelerating at the moment. I think for all the reasons around the geopolitical tensions, and I think it will continue to move forward. Will they take time from time to time to consolidate? Maybe just pull back a little bit before moving forward, of course. I spill winters, the CEO of standard chartered bank. The stock was up 9 tenths of a percent. It's had a pretty good month gaining about three and a quarter percent. Its main
Northwest Newsradio
"east west" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"And that its officers have the training and tools they need to conduct pursuits under the new standards. Corwin Hague, northwest, news radio, a vehicle smashed into the joker's pub and grill along east Lake Sammamish Parkway southeastern issaquah overnight at ATM may have been stolen from the pub a piece of that ATM was seen in the parking lot, como four reports a neighboring business was also damaged. One person is dead after a rollover crash in pierce county. 225th street court east west of the Graham area, the car ended up on its side and a yard right next to a house. The female driver died, the male passenger taken to a local hospital. This may have involved a stolen car that was possibly involved in a drive by shooting earlier this year. That's come all four Steve mccarran. Ten days. That's how long the northbound state route 99 ramp from the west Seattle bridge will be shut down because of that massive hole discovered Tuesday night. Unfortunately, that is the amount of time it takes to properly repair and safely repair this expensive hole. We had a similar location, a hundred feet away. Last year, about 13 months ago. And that was about a ten day process as well. James polling with the Washington State Department of Transportation says the bridge itself is open, the west Seattle bridge reopened to traffic in September of 2022 after being closed for more than two years for repairs after cracks in the bridge were found to be growing. It's 5 O four. Let's get you to the high performance homes traffic center where we say good morning to our friend Kiara Jordan. Hey, good morning, Brian and manda. So we're starting off with a couple of slow spots already, including in the Sumner area looking rather heavy right now on westbound highway four ten as you're approaching traffic avenue, but haven't heard of anything currently blocked. We're also seeing a brief slowdown in Pueblo Bonnie's found 5 12 right around pioneer north bay one 6 7 as slows down very briefly right as you're about to reach four O 5 south I 5 to offer up to the bowling freeway. We're going to find a minor slow down there as well. And our south and I 5 express lanes are going to be a little bit late opening up this morning. It looks like we're having a mechanical issue. And so the gate is stuck and until they can get that fixed, the south side express lanes are going to stay closed. Our next northwest traffic out 5 14. Let's take a look at your weather forecast. Here's como four's Kristen Clark sponsored by northwest crawlspace services. Tracking springtime thunderstorms today already heard the booms and collapse of thunder early this morning over parts of puget sound, a trend that will continue throughout the day in fact, showers and embedded thunderstorms
WTOP
"east west" Discussed on WTOP
"Police call the elaborate plan and its execution unprecedented. A woman was arriving at work here at the TJ max store on east west highway near the mall that prince George's when four cars boxed her in and one man put a gun in her face. Obviously, she is shaken up. This is a traumatic incident for the victim. Like I said, I can not imagine coming into work, you know, working hard and coming in before the sun comes up and being having a gun to shove in my face to take my vehicle. Hyattsville police chief Jared towers says police have a description of the man who used either a rifle or pistol with a silencer and the cars involved. In hyattsville, Kyle Cooper, WTO news. It was a terrifying moment for a rideshare driver in Arlington when police say a passenger got in his car and then shot himself. This was about 8 o'clock last night. Local authorities say they got a call from Virginia's state police that a man they were trying to follow crossed into their jurisdiction when he jumped out of a vehicle and ran into a clarendon neighborhood. A patrol officer in the area then saw the man get into a ride share car, but when police pulled that car over, they say the passenger shot himself and later died at the hospital. His name has not yet been released. The rideshare driver was not physically hurt. Now to the top stories we're working at WTO. The fairfax county police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man outside Tyson's corner center last month is fired. The title base in cherry blossoms are at peak bloom. You probably want to walk to get there traffic is a nightmare. Keep it here for full details on these stories in the minutes ahead. Speaking of traffic. It's four 48 Dave dildine has it. What's happening, David? It's another day of very slow traffic downtown tourists, spring break traffic and around the tidal basin, of course, the slow go continues at peak bloom. At the Potomac river bridges, longest volume delays are heading for the 14th street bridge on three 95. Third street tunnel backed up both ways though at the Acosta river, there's a crash on the east capitol street Whitney young bridge, eastbound traffic is heavy and slow from independent savage who passed RFK out over the Acosta, slow outbound on 6 95 from the 11th street bridge, whether you're going north or southbound on two 95. In Maryland and Virginia beltway traffic is very slow this Thursday afternoon that will happen on warm spring afternoons, especially closer to the weekend. Pedestrian and bus crash in Wheaton, Georgia avenue, southbound, south of university boulevard, under police direction. We had a crash on the Baltimore Washington Parkway, northbound north of four ten, it's out of the way. Volume delays downstream toward fort Meade and Hanover, 95 occasionally slow through Howard county, two 70, many northbound slowdowns through Montgomery county in Virginia on 66 westbound slow from the beltway to one 23 and through centerville, eastbound traffic slows into Arlington. In manassas, there's the crash involving the spill and the closure of business two 34 dumfries road near the fairgrounds in north of the Prince William Parkway bypass, southbound 95, very slow in numerous stretches through woodbridge, Quantico, and Stafford county and Fredericksburg. Dave dildine WTO traffic. To storm team fours Amelia Draper. A beautiful night here in the D.C. metro area and areas to the south some rain up around the Maryland Pennsylvania border, but most of us are dry everybody is mild temperatures in the 70s
AP News Radio
China leader Xi to visit Moscow in show of support for Putin
"China's leader heads to Moscow in an apparent show of support for president Vladimir Putin. Xi Jinping will visit Russia for Monday to Wednesday, amid sharpening east west tensions over the conflict in Ukraine, Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine is expected to dominate discussions. China has sought to project itself as neutral in the conflict, even while in 2022 Beijing declared it had a no limits friendship with Russia and has refused to condemn Moscow's invasion, the Kremlin says next week's visit will take place at the invitation of Vladimir Putin on Thursday, China's foreign minister told his Ukrainian counterpart, Beijing's concerned about the year old conflict spinning out of control and is urging talks on a political solution. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Dinesh Assesses Marjorie Taylor Greene's Idea for a “National Divorce”
"Let's begin by thinking about what Marjorie Taylor Greene meant by this because the concept of a national divorce can be understood in more than one way. In fact, I can think off the top of my head of at least three or four ways that we can interpret it. So one way to interpret it would be, for example, secession, we split the country into two, and of course that has some sorts of operational difficulties. It's not quite as simple of north south or east west. It would have to be a very complex division. So that's option, but it's only option number one. Option number two would be that we create parallel societies. Do Americas inside of America, something I've argued for. And something that to some degree is already happening. I'll say more about that in the next segment. But that's the second option. A third option is decentralization of power. Take power away from Washington. Now we can see that people in Washington won't want to give up power without a fight without a struggle, but nevertheless, the idea of dispersing power to the different jurisdictions, not way red states can live the way they want, blue states can live the way they want, the federal government oversees the process, but it's not the kind of nerve center of making decisions for the whole country. So these are three different ways to think about the so called national divorce. Let's listen to Marjorie Taylor herself because she gave a lengthy interview in which she spelled out her thoughts about it, which I think are quite provocative. And the first thing she says is that many Americans are giving up. They're sick of the Talking Heads that just complain about problems and politicians who don't fix anything. While the right keeps taking beatings and abuse from the left. So that's the whole point that our starting point is kind of the Texas model. We're not gonna take it anymore.
WTOP
"east west" Discussed on WTOP
"In person. Get the home field advantage when gambetta D.C. must be 18 plus to that speed play responsibly. This is WTO P news. 9 23 to some good and some bad news this morning to give you when it comes to the robberies of several mail carriers in our area of the past several months. First, the bad, another carrier was robbed just last week on east west highway in Silver Spring, but the good police have a surveillance photo of the suspect. Also, U.S. postal inspector Michael martell says the robbers are after the keys that open the blue mailboxes, but there's a new idea to stop that. The latest thing we're working on is a new program that adds an electronic coupling with the physical key and luck and we're currently testing that in select locations including the Washington D.C. metro area. It's one of many things the postal service has done over the years to stop that from the blue boxes. Checks and boxes have been stolen washed and attempted to be cashed for sometimes staggering amounts. Kyle Cooper, WTO P news. Fairfax county police looking into whether three shootings and parking lots in the Bailey's crossroads area over the past 6 months are related. The most recent shooting happened Wednesday night at a parking lot on Leesburg pike, county police say after a car meet up was held there that night, police found several cars have been hit by gunfire, two people had minor injuries. Back in September, police responded to a lot on south Jefferson street where two cars had bullet damage. No one hurt there. And on July 16th at a parking lot on Leesburg pike, a driver leaving a car meet up had his car hit by what police think was bullets. One person there was injured. Fairfax county police want to hear from anyone who has information about any of the shootings. Many of us are making lists of resolutions as we get ready to start 2023 at midnight. But did you know resolutions could also be a good thing for your children? Children's national hospital, doctor anisha Abraham says that goals in the new year can get kids started off on the right foot. This is a really wonderful time to think about goals or resolutions and making them fun. She says kids like having something to work towards. So setting resolutions can be fun for them. She says goals like eating a variety of fruits and vegetables or picking up their toys could be good for preschoolers. While teenagers might want to try having some digital free time. But she says to make sure they're thinking about the resolutions themselves. Making them involved in the decision making goes a long way to ensure that these resolutions actually stick. Stetson Miller, WTO P news. If you use Grubhub and you're a D.C. resident, you may be getting a refund. That's because the food delivery company is paying the city three and a half $1 million for charging customers hidden fees and using deceptive marketing techniques to boost profits in violation of D.C.'s consumer protection laws. Attorney general Karl were seen, says, quote, Grubhub's hidden fees and misleading marketing tactics were designed to get the company an extra buck at the expense of D.C. residents. But we're not letting them get away with it. Nearly $3 million will be paid back to affected customers with Grubhub accounts. If this includes you, you'll get a credit on your accounts and if you don't use it within 90 days, you'll get a check in the mail instead. Money news at 25 and 55, here's Jeff clay ball. The markets ended the year on a down note and we now know the yearlong tally and it was not pretty for the S&P 500 Index the
WTOP
"east west" Discussed on WTOP
"You listen. WTO news. It's a 28. Traffic and weather on the 8s, back to Jack now in the traffic center. Still have our delays in Maryland top side of the beltway trying to clear the crash from the middle of the roadway near three 55, the slowdown begins abruptly at New Hampshire avenue, headed out toward exit 34. Again, the center of the roadway had been closed. One to the left and one to the far right had been getting by. A lot of equipment has left the scene. So hopefully, this will be getting out of the road here pretty quickly. Inner loop, we had some rubber necking delays coming in from old Georgetown road, getting south on main line two 70 and on the inner loop of the beltway. You'll find two 70, really not too bad. We were a little heavy in urbana, headed down toward clarksburg, but nothing reported in your way. Icy conditions along east west highway, four ten west near meadowbrook lane, crash cleanups along the right side of the roadway. How to Croft and route three at four 24, no police on scene. You got some malfunctioning signals there. So please take that easy. Inter loop of the beltway south of town without delay. Near saint Barnabas road, second time this morning for a reported crash in the area, interloop after that looks good, headed toward the Woodrow Wilson bridge. We're slow in the district because of a closure. I two 95 south all traffic diverts at suitland Parkway, a deadly crash after exit four, the investigation is ongoing. Traffic will divert southbound onto suitland Parkway, northbound little rubber necking, and you've got delays on the freeway, exiting to go out on the 11th street bridge, slowing in Virginia remains 95 south in lorton as you cross the Aquaman passing one 23. There was a wreck on the right shoulder. Northbound, there was a little rubber necking, then you were fine coming up back into Springfield. 66 looks good, Gainesville east all the way toward roslin, heavy on the beltway inner loop as you approach Braddock road headed toward two 36. There was a broken down vehicle three 95 north after edsel road. I think all your activity got moved up past duke street onto the shoulder. You will find north on the George Washington Parkway. It's our work zone between one 23 and turkey run. It's along the left side, the right lane there will get you by. Hit the road for downtown Frederick Maryland where historic sidewalks are decorated with festive winter lights, plan your holiday road trip today at visit Frederick, dot org, Jack Taylor, WTO P traffic, and checking out our forecast with Mike steinfeld. A very nice end to our work week lots of sunshine today, the winds will be lighter. We'll see highs of the upper 40s to lower 50s. Skies will cloud up tonight. There'll be a chance of some right after midnight lows being the low to mid 40s.
WBBM Newsradio
"east west" Discussed on WBBM Newsradio
"Head north on Randolph and besides your closures on state, just watch for closures on the east west streets that cross the parade route from Ida B wells to wacker and then in Lincoln park, we also have the lifetime turkey trot run today, the Chicago run, which should be decent weather for it. It takes place at 9, watch for closures on Fullerton from Gustavo lakeshore drive to Stockton. On the Eden's inbound and outbound no major problems this morning, the Kennedy looks great, 15 minutes O'Hare into downtown, 15 minutes going back out from the Jane Byrne interchange to O'Hare. On the extension or the one 90 O'Hare extension I should say, you're good in both directions, Eisenhower, 31 minutes, Jane Addams into the Jane Byrne interchange 31 minutes going back out. Stevenson moving well in both directions, I 55 Dan Ryan all look good. I 57 bishop four to solve a lakeshore drive no major problems this morning. The tri state and the other toll ways look really in good shape this morning. I 80s moving well in both directions in northwest Indiana. You look fine from the metro traffic center. Your next report at 7 18 news radio one O 5 9 WBBL. Thanksgiving Day forecast, cloudy afternoon for you. Maybe a shower to this afternoon with a high today of 52 tonight low to upper 30s, some rain to start to just cloud again tomorrow, cloudy with a high about 50. Partly cloudy and 37 at O'Hare midway 39, the lakefront at 40 at 7 ten. A high-speed crash yesterday in chatham left 16 people injured two occupants of a solar vehicle did. The game's Brandon eisen with the story. And I was here this screaming and asked why it was so hard 'cause I'm just like, oh my God, I really hope these people get out of these cars. That's witness quinisha
Bloomberg Radio New York
"east west" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"And CEO of DHL worldwide about what's happening in the parcel delivery business in Europe right now. Of course, with all that's happening with FedEx and its big earnings miss and the way as we've been reporting FedEx polled its outlook for the year because of worsening business conditions, a lot of interest in what's happening in the parcel delivery business right now. So here's DHL's Pearson with Bloomberg's francine LaCroix and Tom Mackenzie. Releasing the global trade Atlas for the very first time in conjunction with our decade long study and the level of global connectedness. And the summary of the global trade Atlas is that there is more faster, broader and changing. And I just talked about for a couple of minutes there. There's more trade than there was pre-pandemic. The trade this year and next year is forecasts to grow faster than pre-pandemic levels. The broadness talks to the nature of emerging economies and how they're getting a bigger slice of the pie. And the changing is the one I'm particularly interested in is the fact that the emerging economies story is now firmly built on quality and not just necessarily quantity that it might have been a decade ago. They're taking the benefits of connecting us to taking the benefits of innovation and taking the benefits of digitalization, putting into the pot and making very precise and high-tech and innovative equipment that they're then exporting to the rest of the world. And the catalyst and the accelerant of all that, and it comes quite clearly through the study as ecommerce, which is now into its sort of 7th or 8th year of quite stratosphere. By the pandemic. When you look at the supply chains in Europe and because of these higher energy costs because of rationing, in Germany, but also other countries. Are you going to see some of this components that maybe used to be bought in Europe, move elsewhere? So does it put further pressure on these supply chains? I think that the supply chain supply chains have been built up on efficiency and economics. There's a little bit of some diversity required in those supply chains in terms of some clear evidence of China plus one and China plus two. And I think the nature of people's supply chains is dictated to a little bit by some of those rising costs, but the one of the other things that the study absolutely confirmed and the global connectedness did the same is that the nature of long distance trade, the kilometers of distance transverse by trade is basically 5000 or 5000 plus kilometers, which it was a decade ago. So that great sort of east west trade route is still very much in place. And that delivers upon the requirements of efficiency and economics, which is what companies want to take their products to market at the most marketable cost despite any levels of inflation caused by fuel energy or anything else. John, you touched on ecommerce and the growth of that part of the business, particularly when it comes to DHL. I'm just thinking there's a couple of big events coming up shopping events, a lot of that will be done online, of course, whether it's Christmas or Chinese New Year or Black Friday. To what extent is the logistics business prepared for that is logistics, the logistics industry is it over the struggles and the strains that we saw during the pandemic? Yeah, so I think that's a great question. You know, what is peak season going to be look like? And our people are ready for it. We spent the last two and a half years finding more aviation assets that we could put into our network. In fact, we've added 80 or 90 new aircraft into our fleet since the last two years. And we've needed every single one of them. Capacity capacity capacity. That gives lift that gives quality and that allows us to be prepared for peak season. There is always a hockey stick for peak season, which is divided by October 1 for DHL express the elevation of the hockey stick this year is completely unknown and whether consumers start buying again rather than browsing. But what I can say is that every single merchant has started trading with us during the pandemic when we had that three years of growth in three months is still with us trading at much lower levels. So those sort of nascent customers are ready to uptick again. But what the peak season really is like we don't know. So how worried are you about inflation and actually does it mean that people will go to stores instead of shipping or that also some of your customers will have to go bust? I think global trade and the demand is proven to be very resilient, you know, from our point of view, it puts pressure on the supply chain, fuel cost, which we have a natural mechanism of recovering that in terms of our fuel search index does put pressure on shipping. But people have moved over to express transportation for reliability of movement for consistency of service quality. And for most of all, consistency of pricing in that our customers only hear from us once a year in January and then the prices are very stable and structured but the balance of the year and they appreciate that in their planning very much. And that was John Pearson, the CEO of DHL worldwide, with Bloomberg's francine LaCroix, and Tom Mackenzie. And coming up, how much inflation is really
WTOP
"east west" Discussed on WTOP
"With your community, let's make 2022 count. The power of one starts with you. For more information, visit come in D.C. walk dot org today. This is WTO news. 8 23, a warning about dangerous drugs from prince George's county after four. Teenage girls overdosed in three days. All four were revived. The first was on Thursday when hydesville police pulled an unconscious 16 year old girl from the back of the car on east west highway. She overdosed on a combination of alcohol, cocaine, and percocet on Saturday hyattsville, police found a group of teens at duck pond park, three girls were vomiting and passed out, we suspect they overdosed on a combination of booze and OxyContin, hydesville police chief Jared towers says the DMV has been seeing an increase in drug overdose cases in part because of the addition of fentanyl to illegal drugs and counterfeit prescription medications. U.S. overdose deaths are up 10% over last year, according to the CDC. Luke Luger WTO P news. Should student athletes be allowed to drive their younger teammates to games and practices. Bethesda beat reports parents are raising concerns about this common practice among Montgomery county public school students, a parent of MCP, a student says when there is no bus or public transportation for away games, the teams rely on parents or older students who can drive younger students. Kristen erdheim submitted written testimony after last week's county school board meeting, expressing her concerns. MCP has policy requires parents to provide written consent for students to ride with a driver under age 21. Parents do not have to provide consent for their child to drive other students. Well, safety
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"east west" Discussed on WTOP
"$69. Michael and son. Traffic and weather on the 8s and Dave dill dine in the WTO traffic. Definitely a stressful traffic day. There are a lot of incidents to go over and the flash flooding that I think caught a lot of drivers by surprise and prince George's county. The water is slowly receding near Riverdale park and hide its fill and Edmonton, but what is left on kennel worth avenue near east west highway and Riverdale road is a number of vehicles that stalled out that were submerged in the water and so police are going to keep two O one closed, essentially from Carter's lane, which is just north of Edmonton. Northbound closed. And southbound kennel worth avenue closed south of river road to deal with the aftermath. Not sure if you can get by on four ten east west highway, it would be very slowly traffic, it's very tangled up in this area. There were other roads, smaller roads, lower line that went underwater. There is also a fire rescue response on 50 westbound before the Chevrolet metro and well before kennel worth avenue. And that's tying up a lane on westbound route 50 on the Baltimore Washington Parkway. The challenge is the tree that came down between four 50 and four ten northbound traffic was stopped to deal with that. You might be getting pie in a single file, but it would be very slowly. Northbound of the Baltimore Washington Parkway. 50 eastbound is heavy out of Annapolis, two way traffic is affected the bay bridge. Traffic is slow all around the beltway, especially in prince George's county in the areas that got the heavy weather lashed hour. Let's go to Virginia. George Washington Parkway, southbound. You are jammed beyond Langley to a point past one 23 traffic was stopped by the heavy police response. They're sending fire rescue there. Some traffic caller said was getting part of the right, but at times southbound traffic will be held by law enforcement on the George Washington Parkway. On Braddock road at sideburn road, the crash is getting towed out of the intersection, but Braddock wrote had been blocked for a while. Back in Maryland, on I 70 eastbound, slow after south mountain before myersville, the crash is on the shoulder now. 95 southbound after 100 had one broken down to the center that's been moved out of the way. New crash on 29 northbound after route 100 is backing up northbound traffic on both routes. Periton during the camp be done for national security because our way of life depends on it, visit periton dot com for more info. I'm Dave dildy, WTO P traffic. Let's find out what's ahead, weather wise, here's Ryan. Continuing with a flash flood warning up for prince George's county north central prince George's county here until 7 o'clock. We're talking about
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"east west" Discussed on WTOP
"Find us on your favorite podcast app. It's four 28. Traffic and whether on the ace let's get to Dave dill dine in the WTO traffic setup. Okay, Riverdale Riverdale park kenilworth avenue looks more like a river the downpour is intense and prints Georgia's fire rescue is trying to access numerous drivers who are stalled in high water near the kettle worth avenue, Riverdale road at east west highway, intersections. This is a place where travel will be very difficult, if not dangerous, you're seeking higher ground preferably a higher parking lot just to wait things out. Traffic is extremely tangled up and there are numerous roads that are going underwater in this part of prince George's county. Again, they're sending boats out to access drivers who are stuck in the flash flooding. I think we're having drainage issues again on the Baltimore Washington Parkway traffic is barely moving inside the beltway, visibility on route 50 is very poor inside the beltway near Chevrolet metro station. D.C. two 95 north battle will be very slow in coming out of northeast, D.C., and it might be worth considering just hanging back at the moment. Beltway traffic is super soaked and slow between college park and landover because of the downpour closer to land them and new Carrollton 50 eastbound, stop and go from around boulevard to the bay bridge. They might be prepping for two way traffic, in Virginia, southbound three 95 before gleaves shirlington crash on the right, 66 westbound or fairfax county Parkway, the crash is clear westbound lanes are open delays remain, and there's a crash near George Mason. Braddock road, traffic stopped both ways near sideburn, road. Closet America is offering 25% off plus free installation if you add a wall bed to your project, you'll receive an additional 5% off your entire project, visit closet America dot com. I'm Dave dildy and WTO P traffic. Well, you heard Dave talk all about it. There is some significant flooding going on in prince George's county because of this storm that has basically been parked on top of the region. So we're talking about Chevrolet
AP News Radio
Russia Continues Shelling in Ukraine’s East as War Divides G20
"Deeply divided at top diplomats a struggling to find common ground over Russia's war in Ukraine and how to deal with its global impacts Consensus appears to remain elusive amid deepening east west splits driven by China and Russia on one side and the U.S. and Europe on the other All the main players are at the G 20 marking the first time since Russia's invasion of Ukraine that Secretary of State Anthony blinken and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov have been in the same room the
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"east west" Discussed on WTOP
"And at no cost Investigate your options At Fortnite federal duck On the Dave dill dine in the WTO traffic center In Maryland on the eastbound lanes of east west highway and Riverdale park earlier this afternoon trash truck overturned off of four ten at 44th place Police still investigating eastbound four ten remains closed between Queen chapel road and route one westbound open queensbury road is jammed but that is open as well Baltimore Washington Parkway crashes southbound near one 97 and northbound near route 100 both out of the way but in Hanover en route 100 westbound near Coca-Cola drive cops are still with crash keeping the right lane blocked Much better on 95 versus two 95 for what it is worth Frederick to mount airy listener finding a new crash eastbound Coming out of Frederick beyond the monocacy river and before newmarket route 75 car damaged with response blocking the right lane she says South found D.C. two 95 after burrows avenue had one stopped in the left lane outbound suitland Parkway after Stanton road one broken down in the right lane in Virginia on I 66 westbound slow off the beltway and slowly getting by one broken down before not lay straight in three lanes to the left Don't miss marleau furniture Grand opening event this Saturday in Waldorf 25 lucky people will win up to $25,000 in furniture giveaways but you must be present at 5 p.m. to win Dave dildy WTO traffic Well here is a rare pleasure on WTO in the afternoon Doug camera what's going on Well actually a pretty nice afternoon You know we're a little bit on the cool.
WTOP
"east west" Discussed on WTOP
"Down 1200 points Another Fortune 500 headquarters is headed here I'm Jeff Clayton Two 48 Time for traffic and weather we turn it over to Dave dildine I really appreciate the call Thank you Just getting off the phone with a listener and Riverdale and they are seeing a dump truck flipped over on east west highway four ten in the eastbound direction near route one and that's along the right side Right now Travis is getting by to the left but there is no one on scene yet And so you'll watch your mirrors for the fire rescue response We're gonna drop that in our system right now And it's on our app And we go to the beltway inter loop under the Baltimore Washington Parkway Two trucks stopped in the left center lane apparently it's a crash It or lived delays are building traffic channeling around that on the outer loop in Montgomery county It is slow to get off four 95 and go north on two 70 There is a car crash well before old Georgetown road police and now an ambulance with it That's reported along the left side of two 70 north Let's go to the beltway in Virginia out of loop work zone should be clear but traffic remains heavy as they pick up the last of the barrels near route 7 on the right Georgetown pike was closed eastbound and Langley for a crash but I think they just reopened it So Georgetown pike should be open now between four 95 and one 23 The crash on the eastbound dulles toll road ramp to the inner loop remains on the right side 66 westbound fine eastbound slow through oakton It works on after one 23 was in the left lane That usually picks up around three or so Just volume on 95 and on the freeway in D.C. D.C. two 95 long-term road work over Pennsylvania avenue to traffic shifted to the right in a column of twos Hauser dot com is a next generation real estate agency for the next generation of homeowners flat fee listings salaried agents cash offers the new way to buy and sell homes learn more at Hauser dot com Dave dill dine WTO traffic Onto storm team four and Mike center Mostly cloudy this afternoon our highs are right in the upper 60s to the middle 70s Overnight mostly cloudy skies After midnight there could be a couple of showers of the bulk of the rights going to hold off.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"east west" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Knicks in 13 seconds. God. Well, they changed the rule, but it's like, who cares? Too late. And this is a strong statement I know. Maybe the most depressing next season of the last 20 years. And I know this is a strong season. If only because it ended so promising, right? Like, okay, we lost in the first round before seed. It was like the most feel good season. You could make a case that Julius Randle was the most beloved New York athlete last year. I can make a very strong case of that, right? Like this guy, you know, we're here, all that stuff. New York's back, blah, blah, blah. And this year has just been one big wet fart. I mean, it has been, oh, the Kemba thing was a disaster. I don't know what the hell happened to tibs. You know, he's not playing the young guys. RJ was fine. Julius has been the biggest disaster. And really great year for Derek rose. What's the difference between this year and last year? Derrick Rose wasn't playing. And he came last year and changed everything. So what a disappointment. And by the way, I hate the plan. The plane sucks. Come on. Wow. What are you doing that like about the play in? Why? What are we talking about? The spurs and the pelicans are like 34 and 49. They should not be in the conversation. This is crazy to me. The Lakers shouldn't be in the conversation, like it was working. Was there anyone ever saying that, oh, you know, by the way, I always loved the 9 8 matchup towards the end, like, okay, who's going to get it? It was usually like, all right, the east west was usually kind of done by the end, 8 was said. He's kind of had a couple guys in play, a couple teams in play. Was there anyone ever saying I want more or like, oh, this team, like no, it was perfect. It was 8. I'm pro for two reasons. I think they, I.
WTOP
"east west" Discussed on WTOP
"8s and Dave dildine in the WTO traffic setting In Maryland east west highway is still closed both ways near rock creek and bis drive and Jones mill road the scene of a crash following a cyclist traffic is turned eastbound off of four ten on a beach drive where Jones mill road and Jones mill can't go east towards Silver Spring on four ten westbound traffic is also stopped before raw creek Outer loop of the beltway the crash on the ramp two 70 was minor but delays remain the ramp lanes are open Italy volume delays across the legion bridge and into Silver Spring in both ways through college park greenbelt and on the outer loop very heavy through Alexandria toward the Woodrow Wilson bridge Two 70 northbound slow clarksburg hyatts town urbana toward Frederick higher percentage of truck traffic in there and there's a broken down dump truck beyond the monopoly still blocking the right lane I 70 westbound slow beyond route 97 toward route 94 traffic was diverted at exit 73 The drivers closer to the serious crash involving the truck and the car and a few others getting by single file to the left westbound on I 70 for everyone else the detour is one 44 Frederick road No crashes on 95 at the Baltimore Washington Parkway in the district Three 95 onto the freeway from the third street tunnel beyond main avenue Look for one stopped in the left lane in Virginia on 66 The pace is good heading westbound out to centerville a slow merge off the outer loop 95 getting heavier both ways through wood bridge And Jeffrey lube service centers keep you moving from oil changes and tire rotations to filters and wipers to a full range of services with a jiffy lube D.C. dot com for location near you Dave dildy and WTO pay traffic For the word on this beautiful weather here's Samara Theodore A great day Spectacular even with heiser 70° and mostly sunny skies Tonight we're cool but common clear with temperatures down into the 40s Tomorrow highs near 70° with mostly sunny skies and rain returns to the forecast late Wednesday and Thursday Showers are likely throughout much of the day on Thursday highs on Thursday will be in the low 60s Good news is we're mostly sunny dry for your Friday with highs in the low to mid 70s Friday night we are tracking another chance for rain which should start to move out of here by midday on Saturday I'm storm team four meteorologist Samara Theodore Right now we're sitting.
AP News Radio
A separatist leader in eastern Ukraine announces evacuation of civilians to Russia amid soaring tensions
"Separatists in eastern Ukraine say the evacuating civilians to Russia as tensions spike in the region immediate worries now focus on the volatile front lines of Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the east where a surge of shelling on Thursday who's put communities on edge the separatist conflict between Ukrainian government forces on Moscow backed separatists erupted in twenty fourteen and has killed over fourteen thousand people so far a spokesman for one of the region's says women children and the elderly will be evacuated first and that Russia was prepared facilities to accommodate them the news all the evacuations is the latest in a cascade of developments this week the bold East West relations to their lowest point in decades I'm
The Dan Bongino Show
Matt Palumbo Links George Soros to Biden Admin in 'Man Behind the Curtain'
"Matt what about the Biden administration Any connections between Soros and members of the Biden administration now Yeah and so the criteria I use for like when I say someone who Soros length is they have to have served on a board of someone like a source facts organization So there's more of a direct link to source I don't want it to be like a friend of a friend of a friend who knows Right right right You're doing actual reporting unlike the meeting Correct Correct So in the transition Biden's transition team there was about two dozen or so a little less than that a Soros links people within the administration near a tanden and Ron klain whose job seems to just be like tweeting about it all day They're both Soros links The strongest is actually Antony Blinken Now blinken's parents are both friends of Soros who have been photographed with him if you go in the open society foundation which is sources group You look at their annual reports both their names are listed in their high and the hierarchy within the organization There's actually a library at a creative university in Europe that's named after them So blankets family is tied to Soros And one of the first things blinken did after taking office was he passed sanctions against this guy named Sally barisha who was the former president and prime minister of Ukraine And guess what Boris is a very outspoken critic of George Soros Now the claims are the justification for the sanctions was all these allegations that a corruption I went back ten years that apparently Obama didn't notice But you look at the source material it's a group called the east west management institute which guess what Was cofounded by George Soros So that's either the biggest coincidence in the world or source of interest
Cyber Security Weekly Podcast
How to Accelerate Cybersecurity Growth
"So congratulations on the news. Chris and thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me today jane. It's a pleasure to be here. Great yeah you know when we speak to cybersecurity phones. We always talk about the threat. Landscape tractors twos tactics innovations. And we talk about also like the human factor been the biggest risk but we sell didn't talk about financing on the side things and is a black box for many so. We're very glad that you can take us behind the scenes. I share with some of the key decisions from a financial perspective so nine hundred million dollars valuation. That's pretty impressive and speaks a lot about the strength of the products and services. So could you tell us about the company and how you come to be part of the team and also your role. Sure well so. I've been with extra for four years now. And as the chief revenue officer and i joined extra hop from a company. A lot of your listeners. Probably familiar with fireeye. And the reason. I joined extra hop. Was that when i started speaking to our of kareem our ceo. He was explaining to me his vision for the future of extra hop. And i got very excited. Because he was talking about this gap that exists still to this day in many organizations in this gap that exists in what we call the east west corridor and extra hop was very uniquely positioned to help address this gap so many companies Security posture and it got me excited. Because when i was at fireeye as you know fireeye became well known for its sand. Boxing technology but was typically deployed at the ingress and egress or the north south traffic patterns to monitor traffic in detect threats as they were coming into the enterprise.
WTMJ 620
"east west" Discussed on WTMJ 620
"An extra nine East west about 94 looking good 17 minutes. I was 16 to downtown. W Alaska wtmj paella wi dot com Time Saver Traffic warm, humid Today Under a partly cloudy sky, I could see a late shower or storm and high of 84 72 degrees in Milwaukee at 7 30. President Biden and the first lady will travel to Surfside, Florida tomorrow to look at the rubble left behind the condo collapse. 12 people have been killed, 149 are still missing and lawsuits are being filed. Maybe he's Victor Kendo is there. A Rodriguez, who made it out alive? Says she's been reporting issues in the building for years. The native the collapse, she says, the building swayed. Like a sheet of paper, The condo association responding, saying it can't comment on pending litigation in a new bulletin obtained by ABC News, the Department of Homeland Security this morning That extremists may try to exploit easing covid restrictions and plans for mass gatherings over the Fourth of July weekend. The government says there could be attacks with little or no warning. He waved in the Pacific Northwest, easing a bit heat warnings still up in the Northeast. There's a deadly snake on the loose near Raleigh, North Carolina, Zebra Cobra capable of spitting venom up to nine FT people being told to keep kids and pets inside. Sherry Preston ABC News, citing unlimited wtmj news time 7 31 from the WTMJ Breaking News center. Milwaukee Bucks playoff coverage on wtmj honest being attended to by the training staff, but Your heart just sinks. It's like a punch to the gut Voice of the Bucks. Ted Davis had a loss for words after Buck Starry anise scented. The company left Game four Tuesday night with an apparent knee injury fans and the Deer district shocked by what they saw TMJ forced time during you down here on the plaza, really, just amongst a lot of cans and trash. The fans did get out of here really quickly was here on Sunday night, and with that win Hands were lingering around. There was some good energy here, but with the honest going down not so much.
Precisione: The Healthcast
"east west" Discussed on Precisione: The Healthcast
"Welcome to precision. The health cast where you will learn how to live your best and healthiest life by precisely understanding how your body works what it is made up of and how to optimize your health based on that information. I'm your host dr marvin founder of precision clinic where we take a highly individualized approach to health wellness and longevity. I helping amazing. People like yourself understand more about their genes have genetics microbiome sensitive toxic exposures levels of inflammation and much much more for the purpose of creating a highly specific nutrition and lifestyle planned and is flexible and sustainable. I hope you enjoy this week's episode as much as i enjoyed recording. Hi everyone welcome to my podcast rear dedicated to delivering the best and most accurate information regarding precision healthcare from.
Science Magazine Podcast
Africa's Great Green Wall to combat desertification secures $16.8 billion in international finance Impact
"Now we have science writer. Rachel danske with an update on africa's great green wall project which will soon see an infusion of billions of dollars from the world bank and others this project. The great green wall is intended to serve as a bulwark against desertification of the land south of the sahara desert while at the same time supporting communities that live in this region. Okay rachel how're you doing. I'm doing well. Thanks for having me sure. This is a rape big wall. This is a big project. It's basically supposed to be this green band that spans about seven thousand kilometers across the whole hop of africa. It launched back in two thousand seven. Rachel what would you say. The progress has been since two thousand seven now to two thousand twenty one almost non-existent which is why they launched this new round of funding last month. There was an assessment that found that a fraction of the goal had been achieved so far and the goal is for twenty thirty so they realized that time was running out right throughout this piece. You make this really important distinction between planting a tree and growing a tree. Why is that so important to think about when you know thinking about restoring lands or planting trees to help prevent desertification. The first time. I heard it. I just thought well. That's a really good way to put it. And then when racer after another would phrase it that way that we don't plant trees we grow them because that's been one of the missing pieces in restoration. Efforts globally not even specific to the great green wall but just in restoration landscape and forest restoration. Generally there has been this focus on planting trees but little focus really on looking at what gets planted in the first place in paying attention to the species diversity in the planting material and making sure that it's the right tree for the right place. There's also last follow plus maintenance of the tree then there needs to be talked to someone in west africa who was saying that. He's traveled to so many countries throughout the continental. Seen so many trees planted. But where the forests. Yeah that's a really interesting way of thinking about it. Basically tree planting mania that's been happening has come from all these different projects foundations quotas. That are saying oh. It costs a dollar to put a tree in the ground and we're going to offset our carbon. We're going to green the world but no one's looking after these trees and making sure that they live beyond that for sheer gas so now that we know that. That's not a good way to go about this. There's actually a lot of research. That's found some of the best practices for restoration projects. What are some of the recommendations have come out from research. In the past ten years when paper published last year talked about ten golden rules for reforestation. And they think those summed up a lot of the recommendations really well in addition to just protecting existing forests which probably sounds obvious. But there's a lot of research on the new. I don't have the same benefits that existing ones do and it's hard to replace that beyond that involving local communities has been just incredibly important component that researchers are saying was not really part of the focus before because the restoration ecologists are focused on the physical research and they aren't trained to think about how people play into the picture and it's just so important to the survival of the trees because it's people who are planting trees and it's people who are maintaining the trees and if you don't have community by an investment in rye these trees there and interested keeping them there. The trees aren't going to last and the trees only have their benefits when they last going back to trees here for a minute you mentioned keeping old us in place for protecting them. What else is being looked at. So that's when using a diversity of species so that there can start to be restored. Biodiversity rather than just monoculture of trees. They're starting to be focused now. Also on the quality of the seeds. And what you're actually planting. And how do we build. The systems and infrastructure for collecting and improving. Seeds is going to be the most resilient seed for that species but then it's also about the genetic diversity because there can be inbreeding with plants. If you're not collecting from wide enough geographic area than you can start to sort of limit. The gene pool and that can be problematic. You talk about this example in ethiopia of a seat initiative a network that is supposed to improve the quality of seats. Can you talk about how that would work. And how it would involve the community. The provision of adequate trees deep portfolio or pets. Bo is a project in ethiopia that they're calling it a functional trees seed system. It's a multi-pronged effort. They're trying to develop standards for seed collection and sharing that. There's high quality seed that will ensure that the trees that are planted can be their most resilient they're developing maps for how to source those seeds they're trying to strengthen the research system the infrastructure and the the research system to improve seed quality and they're linking all of that to the people who will use the seeds seeds there's technical training for farmers and the local language and there are diagrams of how to store different types of seeds. They're really trying to get that knowledge to the community to farmers and local nurseries to scale up the capacity of local decentralized infrastructure. Is there another model project that people might be looking at to expand as the money comes in. Are there other areas. That are doing good things. Yeah there was one of their project that i came across the one billion trees for africa project. And it's led by this man from cameroon tabby jota. He talked about how he grew up in this thriving economy system and he went off to university and when he came back the lands that he new as a forest with no longer for us. He started planting marina cheese and cola nut trees and mingo trees and all these different trees that would restore some of the soil health that he thought had been lost but also produce food and income generating opportunities for people so that they would be invested in keeping the trees there. He called his approach. The contagion approach. Because it's just sort of caught on. He got a bunch of men and women in this one community to be involved in the tree planting the neighboring communities saw what was happening and he was very clear that it's not like a drastic change where their community sedley rich where they weren't before but the small benefits were noticeable and so the neighboring community wanted to do something similar. And so it's just been a word of mouth approach so as he developed this very grassroots success he's gotten funding from more international sources than use it to do the work on the ground in these different communities mostly in west africa. And he's starting to do more and more with the great great wall which seems very exciting so there are a couple of different findings that we talked about that suggests the way forward for this type of restoration project involving the community diversity of. They're planting making sure that they're not just putting stuff in the ground but they're actually supporting plant growth and the communities around it but another thing that comes up a lot in your story is now we kind of what should happen. Researchers have come to a lot of conclusions that are very useful. But then there's the practice what's actually happening on the ground and maybe even what will happen on the ground. What are some of the biggest impediments to implementing the results of this research. One interesting comment. That i heard was that the implementing partners people with the money don't have scientist on their teams. They don't realize how complicated it is to plant a tree into get it right and to make sure that grows the lack of knowledge in the right places and the lack of communication between the people with the money and the people with the knowledge and also the community who is going to be involved. Those conversations aren't being had something else that a here is the expectations that donors have. They want fast results. And that's not. How trees in general work. But it's especially not how effective restoration works because all of these things need to happen and they take time getting communities involved. There's a lot of upfront investment. That needs to happen. In developing all of this infrastructure and research systems with a lot faster to just go and say just plant a bunch of eucalyptus trees. Because that's what they have the seeds and planting materials for. There's a disconnect between the speed that donors want to see results and the reality of what needs to happen. I've seen that you've written about this project for years now. What do you think you're going to see if you check back in two years. I hope to see that things. Like the pats project and this other effort the one billion trees for africa a hope that they have scaled and and that they inspire or serve as models for other projects. I don't know where. I'm placing bets. It feels like there is enough of a resounding message coming from the research community about the importance of this and the importance for the effective ecosystem function restoration and the community development but also for the climate benefits and if the global fenders governments who want to plant trees for the climate benefits if they are serious than they will start listening to these researchers. This is like thousands of miles. Four thousand miles. That's like the us plus another third right east west a huge huge area to cover an across countries. And all these different people's. How is this. possible. Rachel i mean this is a global scale. This is a huge project. it's huge. It's huge and that's probably why it sounded like the great idea when they announced it. And why didn't go anywhere for ten years but it's the partner agencies that i've spoken with involved in this project. The great queen wall are really clear that it's an environmental program but it's also the social alliance when that's meant to economic development but also really impart some resilience. See into these communities. Who are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. That's why they're really ramping. Up this funding now because they see the value for the planet from a climate change perspective but also for the millions of people across this gigantic area. Pinks rachel thanks for having me. Sure rachel Danske is a science writer based in denver. You can find a link to story on the episode page for the podcasts. At science mag dot org slash podcast.
WIBC 93.1FM
"east west" Discussed on WIBC 93.1FM
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Chicago Tonight
Plans for Chicago's Lake Shore Drive overhaul move forward
"North Lake shore drive is getting rebuilt or make that redefined as part of the years long redefined drive project, the Illinois in Chicago Departments of transportation of and gathering feedback, and coming up with potential ways to overhaul the drive from grand to Hollywood. They've narrowed it down to a few options and they're looking for your input ahead of an upcoming public meeting Chicago tonight's Nick Bloomberg takes a look. Lakeshore drive is iconic but with icon status comes aging infrastructure some up to eighty years old and are in need of replacement, and so can we look at some opportunities to really reinvasion the area and solve problems while we rebuild the road problems not just like crumbling infrastructure, but also safety and mobility for all kinds of users. One of the things we heard definitely was improved access to. North shore drive itself. But really to the park, which is an iconic park based on roadway needs and public input planners came up with some essentials lakefront access every quarter mile grade separation for the Lakefront trail where it crosses east West streets getting rid of the pesky signal at Chicago, avenue, and reinforcing the shoreline which has taken a beating of late all the things that we see as critical to install. Harbinson what alternative? The alternatives look at ways to improve travel for buses. One would add a fifth lane in the center just for transit another option would convert an existing lane for transit leaving three for general purpose planners are also considering creating one or two lanes usable by buses and by drivers willing to pay a toll, how do we improve and how do we further manage the traffic? How do we further improve the reliability of that transit but as always a major project like this one has raised Concerns about the character of the Lakefront Lakeshore drive needs it's improvements, but we don't want to see lakeshore drive reconfigured to a point where it becomes a an interstate highway Miller. Says past renovations like near McCormick place created that wide interstate feel. He's also hesitant about a trenched roadway like what's on the table at Chicago Avenue WanNa keep that boulevard character to the drive friends of the Parks Twenty Years Ari agrees she's concerned expanding the drive could put parts at risk our preference is that Improvements be made to make traffic flow better to improve transit access, but not to create more lanes for cars, and while she appreciates the project I toward shoreline stability, this project released should be set within a much larger more comprehensive consulation about our late for neurosurgeon problem others think improvements for transit don't go far enough Kyle Lucas of the group better streets. CHICAGO SAYS ACTIVISTS HAD TO FIGHT TO KEEP the option that converted a lane for buses only, and he wants planners to think bigger like bus rapid transit shifting transportation closer to the edge of the city, and then creating something that's similar to an L. Line a fraction of the cost. Another idea protected bike lanes in both directions since Lucas says, the Lakefront trail isn't always practical for cyclists and none of that taking away from access for cars but we think the data suggests that. If we were to actually invest in alternative of transportation. We need way less space for cars on the Lakefront we could dramatically reduce the footprint of the road and create more park space for people to enjoy and kate low of UIC worries about focusing too much on congestion since transportation is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gases. In the US, we should instead have reducing vehicle miles traveled be one of the primary motivating factors while she appreciates. That improving transit is one of the goals at the heart of a it's about enabling auto commutes during the peak our peak our downtown commuters are disproportionately affluent. So this project would speed their commute and not address transit as on the South and West sides for their part I dont and CDOT say the project is multimodal focused on the future and effort to balance a lot of different interests. Everyone loves lake shore drive for different reasons. We've tried to. Weave into our designs public comment on the five proposed designs is open through November ninth for Chicago Tonight I'm nick. Bloomberg?
Climate Connections
New charging stations help EV owners road-trip
"Many people appreciate the environmental benefits of electric cars but they may hesitate to buy one because they worry that the cards battery might run a power on long trips. We realized early on to to convince drivers to consider even is daily driving car you needed to be able to go anywhere you wanted at any time. That's wing Killin of electrify America. The company is creating to friendly corridors by installing charging stations along major east west highways. One runs from Washington DC to Los Angeles another from Jacksonville to San Diego should be complete by the end of the year. The charging stations on these routes will be about seventy miles apart well within the range of most electric vehicles. So Ev drivers can more easily travel state to state or even across the country and they'll charging times or not as quick as filling up with gas killing expects most drivers will spend less than thirty minutes powering up because obviously you don't want to stop and wait hours when you're on a say a five, hundred mile trip for charge up. So he says the new charging routes will help drivers feel more confident that they can get where they're going without running out of power.
BBC World Service
Germany marks low-key 30th anniversary of reunification
"Go to Germany. Now. Today marks a special anniversary for the country 30 years since the reunification of Eastern West Although the commemorations will be muted inevitably because of Corona virus, three decades as a single nation marks an important moment for Europe's biggest economy. GDP per inhabitant across Germany has risen fourfold since 1990. But the rising living standards hasn't been felt equally across East and West. East Germans, on average, still earn less than their West German counterparts and satisfaction with the political cars Indeed, with democracy as a form of government is lower in the east than it is in the West. That's according to a report by the government ombudsman for the former communist East Germany. Well, Dr Ulrich, A garage is a professor of European policy and the study of democracy. Don't know University crims in Austria and joins us Rekha. Welcome. Good morning. Good morning. How significant a day is this? Well, I think it is a very significant day for years. It's quite I mean, it's three decades on DH. I remember quite well the 25 years ceremonies, a Sze Yu said. Now the pandemic avoids that We have big celebrations, but indifference to 25 years and 30 years unification celebration. And I would say it's very important. But for the first time, there is also a sort ofthe reflection about what has been really happening. Yeah, you know, In the past celebrations we watch just celebrating and now there is a sort of deeper meditation about what did they do to the country politically, economically and so forth. That's interesting, and presumably, also, that's influenced to a degree by the fact that you've now got A lot of young adults who have never known Germany any different. Yes, there is. This sort of young generation was born after who never experienced the country divided And there's a lot of study that those don't feel The difference is that elder generation's would still sort of detect. But as I said, for the first time with these 30 years celebration it it seems to me that if you're listening to all these radio features that were obviously having in Germany today in the past weeks. So for the first time, you have a lot of critiques above the process that has been managed in 89, for instance, the toy hunt taking over the rotten industries and former JD and all these things. So there is a sort ofthe former GDR feeling that comes up sort off this heavenly being override it. Let me bring my guest him who may have some thoughts or questions to you, Rachel Shabby. What comes to mind for you? I think this is a fascinating subject and discussion. And I just wonder when you say Professor garrote when you say that there is deep in meditation about what it did to the country politically and economically. What sort of things are coming up in that conversation? For instance, just this morning when I was waking up with my German radio, and there will Ah, somebody saying who is a former media intellectual, but also sport a person. And who would say? Obviously, there was this What we call a regime so dictatorship regime? Yeah. But for the first time we tried to see it in a more saythe electrical way. Which is? Yes, it was ah dictatorship regime, But people were not all oppressed or did not in general field all oppressed. So there is this little sort of shades of gray in how you discuss that people actually could have been happy. And we do not want to be destroy biographies, you know? And you have for the first time people listening to former GDR sort ofthe personalities and and biographies, which say there was a life in Judea. It was not just dictatorship. Rachel was not the answer. You were expecting. Yeah, I wondered if it would be along those lines. Whether people would actually be able to articulate on a personal level. It wasn't all horrible, Andi. There are sort of that There are nuances to that conversation, and I wondered also, if there would be Ah, discussion about the inequalities that still persists. Germany. I'll come to you on that. In a moment we bring Bobby and then by all means, come back. The question I have is that the sense ofthe off unity that Germans now face Expedience. How much of that is influenced by the fact that for half off thes 30 years, Germany has been run by someone from the East. Someone from the GDR Angela Merkel. Not only has Germany been run by her, she's popular at home abroad, widely regarded as the great statesman off are off our time. I mean, To what degree does that help in this reunification? It's very interesting that you posed this question. And the interesting thing about Mrs Merkel is that she is a sod off. How can I say this? Let's say neutral. If you read the There is something interesting about her that she is not checked. She's not tacked East and she's not even tend women. Yeah, you have a lot of discussions, whether the fact very fact that we had for now, 16 years of German Female chancellor did something to the gender question in Germany. But the thing is that these things you do not really associate with Mrs backup. Neither the East West divide nor the gender thing because she tends to be if you read German newspapers. Often she's characterized as mut mother on, and that is interesting that the East thing doesn't take on her. It's not an obvious thing. So probably it has influence. Probably there's something beneath the surface is, but I would not come to it as an obvious sort of because she has been an East Europe, East German women that now 30 years after some of the country unification is OK. I would not make that link was not the answer. You were expecting. No, no, it was from the album. From the outside. It seems striking to me that she is from the East. But But now that I think of it, she doesn't really make a big deal of it herself. So I suppose it makes sense to pick up on the point that Rachel made about inequalities and how much they still exist on are talked about in the context of what went before. Inequalities. Rachel many thanks for the question. Yes, A lot of inequalities between East and West are still existant and on many layers of society. The thing is that the quality question is not really an East Western. You also have the prophet ear's off the benefit of unification. All the people who were basically trained and skilled and mobile by them in 89, you have those who were more say residual. And you know what? And More the countryside. He, um, so it's not only an East West divide. It's also a rule. Urban defied. If you go like say, for instance, or the recent prison is not as performance performing as likely, But life is a very good example for urban cluster that really has risen out of nothing. And you could also point to HINA, for instance, which always have this, you know, making watches and little eye tech industries and the little clusters there. But then you go to the mall rule areas in save the Arctic Sea making book for Pullman, and then you have a roomful of divide, And this is all about equality. And then one important thing is what is seldom told. But obviously we had a brain dying. We had 16 million people. Informer, Julia today there 11 Million, so five million left. But because there's no counting between East and West Germany about sort of leaving the country, it's not really in the statistics. You need to accept in a way that the brains and the mobile people left somewhere really rapidly after 89 movie
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Firefighters Battle Massive Fires In Colorado
"More than two thousand firefighters are battling four major blazes in Colorado. Michael Hayden is incident commander for a wildfire in the northern part of the state we're working with the other fires right now trying to share resources we said just about everything we have out and recalling from resources all over the nation. Colorado public radio reporter Michael Elizabeth Sacrifice joins us from the town of Eagle that's near a large fire in western. Colorado. Hi there. Hi there. Thanks for having me on. So tell me exactly where you are what you can see what's happening there. I'm not far from Dot Sarah which was one of the areas on pre evacuation notice which means folks need to be ready to leave at any moment the Grizzly creek fires burning in a canyon nearby about a mile east of glenwood springs and this Canyon is one of Colorado's natural treasures. One firefighter I spoke with described seeing it burn as heartbreaking. This fire has shut down interstate seventy, which is the main east-west highway into and through the mountain communities, and this shutdown is causing major issues for businesses and commuters, and because of this is the number one fire priority the nation to try and get it contained and the highway has been shut down for more than a week already. So the number one priority in the nation. But as we mentioned, there's three other big fires in Colorado right now, what's going on with those? Yeah more than one hundred and thirty thousand acres have burned in total and a few hundred people are evacuated some from their homes others from campsites and trails. There hasn't been any structure loss yet firefighters are working really hard to try and keep that from happening short the playing. The penguins fire north of Grand. Junction is now the fourth largest fire in Colorado's recorded history and these fires are hardly contained all at this point and it's really smoky close to these fires especially. But around the whole state, the State Health Department has issued an air quality alert for the front range and surrounding counties, which warns that at risk folks especially should stay inside let children older adults in those with heart or lung disease. Yeah. I was GONNA ask how the pandemic is affecting all this. How what do we know about how covid nineteen may be affecting? Either the people trying to flee the fires of the the firefighters trying to fight them. Right, the State Health Department warns that there is an overlap the people who are most impacted by wildfire smoke are the people who are most at risk for the worst symptoms of Corona virus. The state said the meeting of Kobe nineteen and the smoke is quote a real public health issue. Some research has shown that exposure to air pollution can worsen the outcomes of catching the virus, and while fire smoke can irritate weakened the lungs and immune system making someone more susceptible to infection the state suggestion to stay inside to avoid the smoke they say is now even more important because it can also help stop the spread of Code Nineteen as well. What do we know by the way about what has caused these Colorado I? Let's see Mr with me. Start Your back high. I was asking about the cause of the first. Yeah. Going there under an investigation, the largest fire was caused by lightning. And right now in the Grizzly Creek fire, the canyon fire was likely sparked by a chain dragging on the highway or maybe a cigarette out the window at originated in traffic. But what's really fueling these fires statewide drought and heat, and we haven't really seen those monsoon rains just yet. Right thank you so much for your reporting. Stay safe. Appreciate it thanks for having me on. That is reporter Michael Elizabeth sacrifice with Colorado public radio.
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Ghost of Tsushima: Creative Director Interview (with Spoilers)
"Have a very special guests with us this week that we're both very excited to talk with Jason. Connell from sucker punch. Thank you so much for joining US A. Awesome ear. Very happy to have you of course to go super in depth on Kgo Suma, so for those who are watching end jumping in. Be warned there will be some spoiler fil talking here if you haven't played through the game if you haven't. Checked out everything you want to in the game beforehand. Please do that first and then come back. There's a lot to dive into. We're going to be jumping into as much as we can. Of course if you want spoiler free impressions. We did record episode that a little earlier. Even can go check that out, but. There's so much that we can jump into this game I off. Jason I. Just want to say congratulations for recording this on the day. The game is starting to roll out on launch. Worldwide is already available in some territories as where speaking so congratulations to you on the team on that It's very exciting for to finally be out there as a fan of it and I'm sure it must be exciting for the team. Yes, it's a super exciting to have it out. There cited everybody host their photo mode favorites sin. Just enjoy the Games. I feel like an Brian I think this is true for both you and me. We could probably spend the next forty minutes talking exclusively about photo mode. Yeah, no I. Just get into that very quickly. What you've created, my favorite voted in video game history, but also. You might notice you. Create one of the most not-so-subtle advertising tools. That is perfect for this game. Because every time I seen pictures of it I WANNA? Play it again, and I think for a lot of people who were just sort of like on the outside, looking in a video games in general like people who aren't just totally head down on stuff all the time. They're like wait what that's! That's a video game. Where do I play I play it? They're going to get that so Yeah, that's a very very smart. If you guys it's absolutely stunning game. A cool. Photo of his crazy because we were one of the first, you know infamous second son was one of the first. At least I know of modern games that have put like a like a photo mode in in that game. It was just like this cool idea to show off all the cool particles and lighting. That game was a while known for. But it was wasn't crafted as a personality around. It was the cool photo mode, and then over time over the last few years. You have these games that out and Spiderman my favorite of version of this where they like adds the flavor of their game to its photos like tied to the personality of that gain. On, the building tops, doing like little cell fees and Doing it with a phone. That was awesome made it. You need to spiderman so when we were like. Hey, what are we gonNA do for voter mood? To? Whatever the ghost photo mode. One, it's gotta be way better than our first one because. Our, follow up one and two. It's gotta be semantically. You know connected to the game, so we're like. Well motion in Wind I. Haven't we like? Make it less about a static image. You can do that, too, but have be about moving frame that I think is so beautiful about our game kind of spun out from there. I didn't think it was odd that you give the main character, a Selfie, stick and the iphone. His drone that goes along with. Little you know little out of place, but I thought butyl. Oh God you know it's been incredible thing to play around with, and you can do what Brian said. Every time I see more of it. It's one of those things where I've been playing every night. Still in, it's like Oh, no, I need to go jump back in the middle of the day. Because like Oh. That's a great spot I never thought. I could take a photo of I've been a particularly obsessed with going to bamboo strike locations and trying to get all the great photos. I cannot have those spot often. You know like perfectly placed at an edge or something. I sort of wondering. Because obviously this was built more with like the photo mode in mind as you development went on, because it's become so much bigger, what was world creation influenced at all by the photo mode, or were there any aspects of designing this game that were influenced by it because it is more like prevately used feature these days I guess than back when second came out. You know. A little secret you know we. We always knew we'd have a photo modem. We knew that this ambitious version of like I. said a second ago better and more dramatically connected. Owning, really work on it until pretty late, so you know we were so. Dedicated to the stories in crafting the world, so when it came to the beauty of the world. That add add everything that's in the game. I would have to imagine that that had the most iterating over anything, because it's one of the first things you do before you have the whole story articulated and put into the game. Certainly don't have cut scenes. You know it's like you're laying out terrain and at that like how does the island look and then it gets into the direction the feeling Cutting, trees down growing trees, making procedural tools like the world is the by far the most iterative on thing now. There was a point where we're like. This is how we make our game. Look good clearings. Big giant swath of like in forests, you know that you can see for miles. Off using color as like landmarks again, the Golden Forest, or read flower fields, and then, and then a you know, certainly that sort of made its way into some of our features of a photo, but the the world designed stuff. took the lead on on end photo mode. Okay, now that we've created this amazing awesome place. How do we utilize the photo mode in like critical photo that will. Take advantage of how great our team at did at creating a beautiful world. I think one of my favorite things about this game is the sort of balanced that it's constantly striking Between being sort of completely serene, and then the music swells up and swords or out, and they're slashing against each other. How hard was it to sort of get that that tone down because I could see. You know I think in in lesser hands I could be a very kind of dangerous. Push and pull, but I feel like you totally nailed that and I think that that's like some people when they look at an open world game want like nonstop jam-packed activities in in your team made the decision to pull back and let things breath every now and then How did all that come together? Well you know for me. It's the first game that I was certainly a visual director on, and so I I would I you learn something about yourself with everything you create, and for me I personally learned that I don't have a natural tendency to like create incredible. Violence, I just wasn't that was uneven. Favor Games, bloodborne like as absolutely my favorite game. Guide. You're on this show. This is gonNA be worthwhile and. About it anytime. But no, seriously like. That's my favorite game, but. When we were crafting the world would I navigated towards with Joanna. Who's environment our leader? This did this amazing a blog post recently on playstation bar. was the beauty of it was taking taking a moment to breathe in, and then I realized that some of my favorite games that are not. Show the classes certainly embraced the idea of atmosphere in a sense of this and you know I donate Fox's is is resonates. Conversations resonated with him as well so then then the conversation shifted into. Okay well. We definitely have it. We have a summer game. So you know without saying anything else as you say Amer game, you know you're going to be hitting things with a four-foot razor blade so. You know violence is GonNa come so we certainly work on that stuff. allied and we wanted to be great and gritty, and the you know like you really WanNa feel like you have contact when you have contact but the other stuff doesn't come as natural, and you have to actually work on that stuff to balance it out, you really do, and so that means like the idea is about creating Haiku, which was actually named idea You know really. Or believe it was taking a moment to. Allow the beauty to take hold, and not what I think is cool about the ICU that I hope people enjoy about it is is that they're not tied till like progression like you're not. You're not like intrinsically forced to go, do it? You know there's a sense of you have to have the wonder and curiosity desire to do it. It's not like game telling you go do this to reach next level certainly, a lot of that is tied to corporation auto out to have to consider that, but it is. It is a work philosophy to try to get that balance of that contrast It takes years to get right for sure. I really enjoyed the Haiku sections actually He was like you said. It's sort of provided like this. This relaxing breeder and I did like the you were able to select different things who essentially collate them into one kind of fresh Haiku each time. Yeah I I mean I did every single side quests in every single objective in this game, but I I really enjoyed those wow awesome. The accuser, some of my favorite ones to the cinematography. You know it was at the moment to like. You know certainly we call them breathing. Moments definitely say that studio, but it was kind of a moment. Regis Art Geek out a little bit like the people who do the cameras. Mottaki, they can place it in to get the right motion and you know, and then the writers have an opportunity to like. Give you give you a couple of cool options. Just the beauty kinda comes through which is which in the end has been a very positive thing for the experience. Yeah, the balance that Brian was. Speaking to how you were sort of describing how that all came together? I could imagine. It's a very fine line between making sure it's peaceful and calm in certain areas, but. It's still engaging for the player because you could always run the risk of it. Being something that the player doesn't want to engage with, but as Brian. Saying like finding those high coups feels like this wonderful moment of solace after I have assassinated an entire Cam Mongols. And need to reflect on Jin's life, but also just the world I, it's this really great balanced that a I think as Brian was sort of saying you always get in games, but it feels so refreshing to hear. And it's a huge part of our philosophy. How we treat. Treat the game. Whether it's a Haiku great example, he could probably keep talking about, but you know the music style music how the music comes on not having things like combat while you're doing, shrine climbs or anywhere near them so that we can let those be their own experience, and so are these, are we? Everything wanted these features that are not mainline missions. Our conversation is like about how much combat how much non-combat and what is the purpose and what are the? What's the feeling for its existence like what what is the emotional goal for for these features and these are conversations? We have a lot and sometimes triple times over we try. We don't like it. We try something else. Well and for me, what's really interesting is sort of the place that all of these features and the things you go on, have sort of in the context of sucker punches past work, because it is I've been such a huge fan of both cooper franchise and infamous. Stir a year and. You know you get increasingly larger, but often more urban. City expenses that you're exploring a lot. In both of those franchises to certain extent here you're out in the wild. There are of course settlements and encampments and things like that, but there is a there's a lot of stretches where it can just be the world around you that you're exploring and I was sort of wondering on a world design level. How do you? How do you balance? Making all of these locations unique to explore as well and interesting. Even though you know a lot of can just be more, the environment's like what are the challenges that come with that? Yeah, so one of our. Our Contractors Jeff He. He talks a lot about content density, and what is the correct density and I really am really thankful that he brought that conversation up to light so much because It's such a you know Thinking about if you're currently doing something, you're going across the world and run into something. How much further would you have to ride your horse before you might find the next thing, or can you see the next thing from where you currently are? How how dense is it and I really enjoyed that conversation? Because it let us think about what's the right philosophy for for our game and it it certainly it allows us to you know if we want to in one place, you just completed something, and you should be able to generally speaking, look around and find one more thing on horizon or see the shrine trying on top of the mountain. It influence our world design alive, because when we first had the game built for the I you know I'd say maybe two years. It was a lot of forest. It was a ton of trees and it was cool, but you always were felt like you were in this like. Tunnel beautiful, but really deforestation. which does a couple things one is? It is very cool, but. It makes it really hard to know where you are without a compass or many map. Something telling you kind of giving you that extra information that your brain is just really needing. So what we did is we started opening up fields and I definitely some shadow, the classes photos out and was like fields as as reference vm. Because it just feels so epic when you're going through field, but but you know the criticism it could be that it's boring or something like that, and and really have to embrace a philosophy that it won't be boring because there's beautiful music. There's five things now that you can see what you want to do next because you're in a field, there's more clearings and it created a Great beauty in the game, but also more opportunity to engage with that density and I I. Really I think that that was one of the conversations that was ongoing throughout the project, but we landed in a really. I think unique spot for. When when when you? When your team was the helping this game, you obviously weren't anticipating a significant portion of the world's population to be stuck indoors for months on end, but At one I mean there were obviously there. Are you know a lot of sort of like entertainment? Things that have come out during quarantined. That didn't really. Fair as well due to their. SORT, of like the way they were delivered or their subject material something that, but this is a game that I really more than ever appreciated as a guy who's in a two bedroom apartment really appreciated huge open fields and. Mountains in like sprawling rivers and seas and stuff like that but I think one of my favorite things about the big open fields is that there's always something? Or there is like a lone tree. And you're just sort of naturally drawn towards it, and I found that like that sort of like beautiful use of negative space to be like so powerful. In terms of like never felt to me like there's nothing ahead of you. This is boring. It always felt to me like this. Is this is this is like a sort of triumphant use of minimalism and and charging towards something. To reveal that there's like one loan item in the distance was so much more engaging tomato like at a mini map that had a hundred time trials, but Hamas other stuff like I. Found Myself uncovering the dog on the entire map which. I was I was like basically riding around in spirals like in that movie alto like I was trying to. Five is in half the time I was on foot to. It was really wonderful game to explore so I. WanNa ask you about that the. The the sort of the way exploration on unfolds in this game is something I. Really Really Love and I think a lot of open world games are going to take note of following the wind and talking to people and following Fox's two locations rather than just you know overtly stating the player. This is where you're GonNa go, or you go to. The map in this big thing opens up. All that come together. What was the push and pull on that to sort of find the right way to keep players in the no, but without making like overwhelming them with information. Yeah I'll talk about kind of our studio kind of struggles, but I also kind of throw in my own, maybe personal philosophy, too. So I. I judge Games my favorite game, especially them really harshly by. How does it feel if you're? You're actually not doing anything on the sticks. I would if you're just sitting there. Just sitting in the world, you're standing in the world. You're on your horse in the world like is there. Is there a what's the feeling and some of my favorite games by just sitting there? There's like things that go through your mind. Like why do we? What are you anticipating? That are stuck on the story or like. Where's that next objective like you're just what's going through your mind? because. That's when you're not doing anything. That's what you're thinking of next like. You're just taking in the beauty looking around our game I hope that translates into that sense of exploration and sense of curiosity like if you do stop for a second yearly, you're not already on kind of a train of thought it is more. One of curiosity is one of like. Hey, what? What do I want to do next? Oh, there's something over there. There's something of their. Oh, I wonder band before, so they're having gone to could check it out and I. think that the more information you were to have on your screen compasses many maps. It kinda answers those questions before you even have time to ask the question. It's just like the dots right there. Let's go do the DOT. It doesn't matter what the DOT is. It's just there's thing let's go do it, and so that that to me is is a really important part of what I think. The Games, Tries to do in the world, and and certainly we did not have the wind when we started on this project at all. In fact, what the wind was which is has got this cool story I'll say quick is. on the first direction slides on the you know we did. A presentation is like one of the first presentation out the way look and feel and everything moves was was one of them like a wind. We're going to double triple quadruple down on win, and you know there's a lot of attack that has to go into that. He got Capes moving I gala hair moving. You gotta get trees and Bushes, and especially for procedurally generated now artistically procedurally generated world. That's really tough. Two years later. Something like that. That became true and you've standing I'm standing in this world and we had other elements we were helped. Augmenting are kind of navigation and get around the world and I'm just like holy crap. The wind is amazing. It actually works at that time. It always like went from East West or West. East or something I can't remember always just directional and it's just. It's really good. And then we started having conversations like how going to get more stuff off the screen to stay in the is like beautiful world more and more because it's just. It's really stunning even years ago. And a one point I had this idea like. The Wind. It sounds kind of crazy and Adrian is like our longtime worked on has been sucker punch. Long Time. They tried a little quick prototype with me. We had like fifteen people play at were removed all the you I just to hey. Can you just just try to follow it and just and it sounds crazy, but follow in if you can get to that hot spring or that on. And it worked like the first prototype fourteen out of the fifteen people were able to easily get there so cool. Yeah and I. I was like Oh. Yeah, we have to do this. Question. Like. This is something that is going to be unique to the game and then an analyzing. Say on them about the wind because I can do it all day, but is it had like the matic ties to the island in historical kind of. Poetic, Tian's to you know. The Mongols came in as typhoon sweeps them all out to see and. You know we name the sword the sky storm after that you know him being a storm, a metaphorical storm on the island for for the island, rooting for the island, and then it was like about nature, and then the animals came along, and I, you know it just felt like a bunch of like one of these critical pieces you don't know exists, and then you find it, and you're like that fifth straight there and does and then nearly. Oh, I, think we have a good. I can see the puzzle now so. Cool, it was cool journey. Having having that comes away. It all it feels so true to the world that the team has created in those moments. Because you know, I'm I'm a completion is player like if you give me a list of a thousand things to go collect if you give me, you know like an infamous. Charge to go collect I. Collect all of them, but there's something that I think does speak so much to this world and end you wanting to be invested in that. It is really by pulling everything. Out of the screen that you're looking at and just letting you look at the world you get more familiar with it, and you start to learn more about Oh. Yeah, I've taken that pass before. That leads to that pillar of honor or there's that cemetery over there as you start to. Trek across the land. It really gets you invest in the world in a way that I think just having a list or a neon sign to tell you where to go would. Deliver it in the same way. Yeah, that's great. That's so. That's the goal so I'm glad you had that experience. And I it's one of those things you know that the open world I think speaks so well to what the team really accomplish with this game, but one of the things I was curious about wasn't and I know. We talked about this a little bit, but released, but since we can. Talk to the island as whole, but what was the? I? Guess the poll the. The back and forth poll of wanting to make sure you stay true to the spirit of this real world location, and honor the history and the people that are but also create a world that at the end of the day would be fun to run around or write a horse around in as a game. Yeah and it's a great topic, and it's kind of been the the struggle for and I would say struggle in a creative sense. It's the creative. From from from once, we actually knew we were making Susha and we started doing all this research, and and you learn so much about the island. Like the fact that at that time it was likely to be like ninety five percent covered in dense forest. Which again I told you we tried. We tried very dense forest in. It's just hard to ride a fun horse through tree. Trees it's. Pretty tough. Also, it's incredibly hilly. We went there just like it's just hill after hill after mountain after Mount After Mountain, also challenging to create a interesting layouts in combat spaces in so. So, we worked with our team in Japan. We're like hey, this is how we were planning on You know being inspired by the shape of the islands. It looks very similar to the actual shape, but here's some kind of Ford as we'd like to take or game reasons you know, make the game more fun to to roam around. The landscapes in have layouts that have. Have Cool puzzle climbing challenges, or what have you were interesting missions, and and they were totally for it you know. And they gave us feedback of maybe when we went too far and then they also they know is in a fun way. They gave us feedback of win. Hey, you could go further with us, and so that was. It was a lot of ultimately. We're super inspired by history, and what happened and then the general beauty of greater. The greater nature of Japan as a whole, it's definitely hugely inspiring to us but we also make in a game and a PR and original story and a lot of things that. Have to Challenge it, but work in tandem with it, so it's it's definitely been a challenge I'm in a good way and we learn so much. And I will say the last thing I'll say on that. Is that within Joyon on the environment? Our team myself in the constitution. We talk a lot about like realism. And You know like A. Maybe painted realism, or maybe, how can we do it like a slightly stylized version of that? And and and you know this is not even if you've ever been to Seattle only did infamous. It wasn't really a stone by stone. Kind of recreation. Roads aren't lined up exactly. It's sort of like if you blur your eyes, you're like Oh. Yeah, that's definitely definitely Seattle like it rains. A lot of people drink coffee. PUNK ROCK and grunge music. It's You know the things that are there the spacing? Like the things you would expect, but it's not the like. Let's put a magnifying glass over, and let's get it like perfectly accurate and we take that same philosophy here. We want to feel like that. This is plausibly. Dass what it could feel like. That's what if we could do smell through it. That would we would try to. Feeling into music, we're going for a as a is a is a main heart. Smell will actually be unlocked on the playstation six. Thirty I. Have Rumor, we have an today since three. Hey listeners. We know you love gaming and have excellent taste, so we want to tell you about the official. The last of podcast in the show writer podcasters stand up comedian and huge fan of the. Host Christian Spicer we'll revisit the first game and talk with the people who created that critically acclaimed work hit. Also give you what you've all been waiting for. A behind the scenes look into the last of US part to Christian wanted to crawl into the minds of these visionaries and talents who created this highly anticipated game the podcast. We'll recap the news story. Story and episodes five through eight while also diving deep into the making of the game in the first episode. Christian will talking with Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson also known as Joel and Ellie may land combat designer, Anthony Newman, and the writer and creative director of the last of US Neil Druckman. The whole series is crammed with conversations with developers invoice actors. The official, the last of podcast episode one arrived on June ninth, and they'll be releasing new episodes of this limited series every Tuesday for the following eight weeks available now on Itunes spotify, and all your favorite audio sources, stream, or download the official, the last of his podcast from June ninth. The the combat in this game is awesome, and that's coming from somebody who to be completely transparent. Wasn't crazy about it. At first 'cause my immediate reaction was. There's no lock on. Think what do you mean? There's no lock on like you can't. You can't have a certified again without lock on and as as I grew to. Appreciate. The sort of dynamic happenstance of a dashing between those four stances and. Fighting different types of enemies. In synchronicity while switching and switching back and forth using my sub moves and everything I was like. This is one of my favorite combat systems interview ever But what what? How did how did that decision? Come to not have have lock on? was that was at a debate internally in the studio? Because that's to me, that's one of those things that people just expect from a video game and I found myself not even thinking about it after a few hours in. I. It's definitely debate right like it's A. It was heavily debated and talked about how you know. From all corners of the CEO there was not some like. I mean because it's a it's a standard. There is a standard anytime. You go against the standard. You need to prove it out and. I'm glad we tried something different than you know. As person bloodborne like my favorite game, I like games that allow you to really kind of hone in and focus, and and control that since a control comes, comes with locking, but and you know, and certainly as a samurais sense of control is a huge fantasy so Yeah, man. We talked about it a ton Maybe when it comes to combat, I would say it's in the top three conversations that we had over the entire course of the project while. But I have to give massive. Shout out to you know. One of the studio heads. You know I've found Sucker Punch Christopher. Men he's he's behind the core design, a lot of the combat and he he works out of the code for it, and there's another Guy Ted. Who is awesome designer? And he liked those two brains man. They worked together, and they figured out a way to create something that is first of all feels like you're hitting the person when you do hit them like it's a tandem as animation, so it's not like a hit box based. It's like these. This animation links up to this one. Is I very newbie? Animation Brain. And it's not just like the slash through thing right, and so they feel like you're hitting the person it feels. A goal is a gritty feeling, but it's also incredibly fast paced at times. You know as you get like five or six people around you you can be, you could be like. Changes. In planning, and when you're going to do the smoke bomb, go around the building and do another. Jump down from the top, you know. It's just like a it. Almost like a the style of it is is better with how the walk on. That's kind of the thing that we found over time especially when she became pro at it. And locking on actually with slow down, maybe in some ways and a sense of control will be got out of it instead was things like standoffs in duels, obviously assassinating somebody having that jump on, somebody gives you that, too, but we decided to really push that those moments or mythic abilities I think are. Usually will help take out people pretty quickly. The mythic abilities are interesting because I I think i. I I'm really glad that this game never really went like supernatural despite having the Word Ghost, in the title. There's. There's other there's an alternate version of this game. Were you guys just want preserved and people are summoning dragons and stuff like that. I appreciate that a lot of the crazy stuff that you got away with felt grounded even like the fire sort is ridiculous, but there's like. Oh there's there's sort of like a scientific explanation. Yeah. And then when you start doing some really intense stuff that feels deliberately over the top like dude, get terrified and they starts crawling away like. Is Watching people just straight up running around. Disappear and stuff like that. It's crazy like this is a i. mean even when we pitches his game. This was another heavily debated. Topic is going to be fantasy based or not, and obviously nate and I felt really strongly as well as many other people that we should not make it fantasy base in like high fantasy base because. It really those first of all there's. Several of those games out there already, and they do a wonderful job and I love neo I love sector, Oh, these games are awesome and they lean on that a little bit more as their unique. You know and so. Good. It's smart of us not to do that, but the reason why we didn't do the reason we did was because we were definitely were focusing a little bit more on the Human Story certainly one of the world to feel plausibly real. And you know if you like, I'll take the example. You just threw out there like having people fall in there, but get scared. Scoot away, man if you could just like, pull out a fucking dragon every five minutes. Scares them like I feel like a real challenge to overcome like and so you have to be constrained. So that when we do pull out something that's really incredible or scary or something like that that it actually has wait to it, you know and. I one of the things I do love about our game in might be some of my favorite content, actually mythic missions because. They. A build up the idea that people were legends like they talk about people in their connection to the island. The lightning one is a great example where you know, they burn the black sand, the sands black, which always like wire, the sands black back answer black, and it just bill out as they build up this legend of people that may have come before you, which is Kinda cool because? because. You're kind of building your own legend. To maybe one day, people talk about mythic stories of the ghost You know that humans can do maybe slightly crazy incredible in your living, example of that and people tell tall tales. I think that's cool. I love win. Jin would go around to the stories and people would be like. There's ghosts in the woods and he's like. No, there's not. Watching watching the people run away after a battle, though my favorite things in the game because it's it teeters on like on on like. Comedy, you would find in like vintage Kung Fu movies where somebody would come and kick. A bunch of Bass and one guy would be like away. Runaway ended every single time was I would let him run like maybe like hundreds of feet pull out my arrow. Cruel Man I know you you put it there. You know you gotta sit there, don't. If you give Brian the high ground. He will let them run as far as he wants to. I what I do love going back to the mythic tells them. You know maybe people one day telling the story of the Ghost I. I'm always sort of a sucker for. Stories that are about storytelling to a certain extent, because I do think you get so much of the human nature that we all deal with on a day to day basis of why we tell stories and everything and I I love that that permeates so much of this game, and not just in the quest, but on the on the ques- structure as a whole in this game I think is really unique, but it works really well. Because as Brian was saying earlier, you can go to a house in. Someone's saying Oh. There are nearby. Please help me or someone one of my favorite stories early on one of the side missions I found was. A woman send you to get food from the bandit that stole it from her. And then you bring the food back and she's like. Oh, thanks! I finally have food down. You're like. Wait a second. That wasn't yours to begin with. I just killed all those guys because you can't, there's. There's this. Stark sadness to a lot of the stories that I think really works in this game and I was just curious on like a total storytelling. Horrible 'cause there are moments of levity. You know like everything with Kennedy I think is so great, but how do you you know balance? I think this is a land and a group of people who are under siege. They're under attack by the suppressive force. At the same time. They are living their lives. There's this humanity going on the island. Hugs, what are some of the struggles that come up and try to tell those stories? Yeah, well first of all. When you started telling me, which story were, I was like racking my brain like which? It was so many. I I know it's crazy and I'm gonNA. Play through a bunch probably that I've played through in a long time, I play retail, but. You know It's balanced because you don't want it to be this like we did not want our game to be this like heavy thing that was constantly hitting you over the head with a that was just not what we wanted for this particular game. Think anybody really goes from bad particularly. I think they're always in goal, but but in it's hard, though because invasion and you wanna see desperation, and you WanNa see like these people have struggles. And frankly you know we want to. You know it's not always like dude. Go kill things, and so you WanNa hear you know people having. Their kids, or this or that like our parents like I. Don't know you just want to hear something that sounds like these people are struggling a little bit. But you know the when it comes to the writing and those stories, most of the stories do most of them do exist to try and reflect at the world has been in invaded, invaded place and. For people that are like these allies, and you engage with those those will get a little bit more in depth than traveling of their story, and for these little small one off encounters. Just say look even even the hasn't class is affected greatly by this and hopefully feel a sense of remorse for them or sadness for them, maybe a sense of duty that why you're doing this stuff, but as for the tone of it. I genuinely like a somber tone in general, I think Sambre is is not dark. Sombre is not grotesque. Sambas is just like a like A. Light sadness to things and I felt like that light sadness in a world that is so incredibly. Beautiful is kind of a nice. Balance and I think we look at it now that way and to some extent. That's a really good way putting now that now that you say that. It makes perfect sense because. You have all these incredible like you know. There's Fox's in this you know. Like. Rainstorms the beautiful trees and yellow leaves, but then you go, do these side quests on. You're like Oh. Wow, that was. Your family died and you can save them and you're like damn. That hit me hard that one. Particularly, there was one side quest for like now I know, too. Hard that one's talents so hard and You know there that one people on on the team who? Created that one, and then like you know as we get through the Polish face like Alan, somebody went through and added a bunch of extra work to that one for animation, and like kneeling down, and you know I you know in from liking that mission to really like connecting with more, and this is a small thing right like this is not a. Two hour long you know big big mission. It's very straightforward and simple cement to just reflects the tone of the world, a little bit and Alan Dow was one of the ones that, even though it's a small moment in your entire through I think improved a lot of the last course of the project I'm glad it exists. That's awesome. Yeah, I I, don't even know if I necessarily have a question about it, but I'm just curious to hear more about the the construction of the the site quests when it comes to the side tails when it comes to those the supporting cast that you get because I do I do think one of my favorite things. Throughout sucker punches, history has been that there is of course he usually a pretty great main character, but also this really great supporting cast as well, and you know going back to sign infamous now with ghost. I loved finding out more about Yuna and lady Moscow and just everyone at the pace that you want to in the world. And that balance I guess my question is because I. do think that's some of my favorite story. Telling him the Games in the game comes from those lines. How do you balance having this stuff? Be Optional I guess if you if a player just wants to go through the main story, but also encouraged people to want to keep going back and revisit these stories in these characters. Yeah Yeah! It's a question you know we From I is long as I can remember. I think I, think earliest pitches of the game we talked about. How we really wanted to create sort of this. Anthology of short stories. know these little little side branches off the main trunk. You know that you could. You'RE GONNA. You'RE GONNA get invited to them on the main truck main story. You'RE GONNA. Get invited them and maybe even once or twice in an engaged with them, but it's up to you hopefully, engaging enough for that story relates to you. It's up to you to kind of go. Finish out the rest of that branch, and we do a lot of stuff like we try to reward you for doing these things but I find that those things are They're good and I'm super glad. Glad reward you in different ways for playing these, but I find that the beauty of those those allies missions. If you will Masako. Norio characters is that they're just they're. They're far more developed in terms of like there are like what they need out of the world in their stories are interesting, and and they all have a different perspective on you and life, and you know in an what I what I think is kind of cool about creating a world like this is that you have to be okay with having content that exists. You're not forced to play. And you have to embrace that you have to because that. That is what makes it joyful when you go on your own ambition to go through it. It's not that you were told to go. Do it was in the Golden Path? And there were versions of the game earlier that a lot of these characters stories were more interconnected to Go Path. Through play, testing and feedback in her own kind of iteration process. We ended up where they are. Which I think is the right spot. which is you introduce them and then? Over your curiosity, we can push them push. You can go enjoy them your own Yossi, and there. Some of them are five or six missions long. And I think that's the right model, but it takes some iteration to get to that that that's spot for us. Even having late in the game the I think it's two missions for Eureka that pop up after you've revisited home. Just was such a such a Gut Punch. In the midst of as Jin, story is starting to come, full circle meant to have this exploration both more into him, but also into her life It's it was like as you were saying I, it felt so much more rewarding because I, saw it out that story within the. Yeah I think that that's A. It's not an easy philosophy to hold you now. as a director or as a contributor designer artist, because it means that somebody is going to get a bunch of people, not GonNa, play your mission bench people are not going to see your artwork, and and it's really hard to like talk about that because I want everyone to who worked on this game at Sakkara Punch to just like the super proud of it and love every moment that they cred tributed, too, but that's one where it's like. Yeah, but your thing is optional, and I can really bad, but it. In these cases it is for the for a greater feeling that. The people that will engage with it will probably tear out will probably love or be maybe even their favor mission of the game, even not the golden path I gave might be their favorite moment in the game nest. Because you, you let them engage it at their own will in. That's A. that's a hard philosophy to to. kind of stomach, but I think it's I. think it's a really healthy one for the type of game that ghost is. It absolutely plays into who I I think. My favorite thing about the game. Is that Me In the act of playing the game, so has to the game halfway in a presents all of these options, but I have to go exploring too, and I feel encouraged and want to explore and of my favorite times playing have just been putting a dot on the map letting the wind guy. A thousand kilometers, and if I if something stops me, stop if it doesn't I just keep going until something else. Interest me awesome. It's a calming experience which I don't often say I think about games at the moment. That's exactly how I played, too I would just put a marker somewhere completely random very far from me and just go there and see what I ran into along the what along the way with stories popped up which new characters I would meet, that would show me points of interest and stuff like that. and I think that that loop was really smart in terms of having sort of random gangs of bad guys. Patrolling the land and you'd run into them, and they'd have somebody kidnapped, and you'd rescue that person and that person would tell you another place to go. It felt like you're constantly pulling on these little threads. and I loved that so much was did that did that all take awhile to come together? Like outside of the wind is sort of the way the. The optional stuff and the sort of like randomize character you know excursions and stuff all interconnect. How how was it bringing all that stuff together to create the flow that you guys ended up with? The I I you both sound like you've played it exactly the way that I would recommend somebody to play, which is like hey, you know every now and then just throw down and go that direction and see what you find, and and if you don't find some great than go to your Golden, Pastora that's awesome, but try it, and because it's. In this is true for even when we're doing play testing that we did find that that was some of the ways that people would enjoy the game the most which is awesome. will you're talking about that? Like the ecosystem imbalance of people who tell you where stuff is in? How many patrols are there that stuff I'll tell you? We tweak that probably. Maybe until weeks before gold I think. Exactly the number on no top ahead, but is very late. We tweak those numbers because. because the sense of owning the curiosity, and like not having everything told you. was so important to the global feeling of enjoying just like exploring throughout the world, and as soon as you're told, were too much. Stuff is or too many things around your map. It becomes a different problem like you're kind of you either you either go into. Let's just go through the checklist which. Is Fine I think if you found them on your own but can be exhausting for some people because they're like Oh God. There's a ton of stuff to do, or it's kind of a turn off because you already know what it is, and you don't think of anything else over there, but they're actually might be if you if you actually went look, so we actually ramped down the people that the amount of people that would tell you where things were quite a bit. It used to be far more. part of the emergent processes I've almost everybody who talked to tell you. Something is, and it would put a thing on your map and We found that to be Super Smart System, and I'm so glad that we have it, but we put it in a very specific way in a very specific amount of things on the map total. Total that it would ever tell you about so that you still had your cool moment of like i. don't see anything over here on this. I'm going to head that way and finds things along the way now balance. It's really it's really tricky. Because again it goes up to that thing. I was talking about early. Enough loss of being okay with things being skipped and. That if you don't want to be so much that you don't have any information, that would be bad too right so it it is takes time to to work out, but the team did that. No, no a healthy fund way but I think even when you like clear. Mongol, Camp and Clears up a little bit. You still get a question mark. It's not even like yours, a hotel or something like that. And it's sort of it to me. It fell It felt like A. SORT, of natural to the universe that you guys were setting your game in this is this is like a long time ago. There is those no yelp. There's no google. So it seemed natural that you'd find a random person on the street and be like Oh. Thank you so much. There's this awesome restaurants. You should go check it out. Right I really doug. That I played a ton of the game in Kerr. Asala Mode Oh cool and that was. It was really it was really difficult for me. 'cause you made such beautiful game central? And I think it's I think it's. Beautiful in a different way in Curacao mode. But there was just something so special about about like heading into conflict or a story be or coming into a new environment. or it's all black and white, and there's that film green crackling, and a I read that you guys even did some stuff with the music to make it feel almost like it was coming through old speakers or something like that. Yeah, how how how how did how did you develop that? I I know. That's like obviously. It's something that you're studios. Really proud of especially since you've got endorsement from the family. It was a that was A. That was a I. I probably will put that in my top list of my entire career as like being apart process because. I mean it's just. It's just why just kind of a wild thing that you don't go into making video games because you expect to go through that process one day, yeah. which is probably why it's cool is that it's different. You know, but. The. We knew that we WANNA. Do Black and white mode I mean I think i. I don't remember when we first talked about it, but it was definitely really early Redo black and white vote, but again it got kind of pushed towards the end of the project, and then once things started to. You know you can sit in the world and you could be like. Oh, my goddess stunning! It's really a beautiful I feel I. Do feel like I'm. There's moments of this I feel like movie. It's coming. It's coming together. And, then we're like okay well. We definitely have that mode. Let's are planning for it. And an I got version of it in that was a very early version of it with a sliding team and Like what do we call this thing? and You Owe Samurai cinema or classic. Why can Wyatt our traditional La just things? You know cool cool names. And member WHO's I may was Brian Studio head. I don't remember somebody was like. When we see if we can call it, Chris Allen Mode. And I thought that was brilliant and I was like. Yes, can we? What was that process so I reached out to. One of the people that I think he deserves a special shout at his name as a relay Katami. He's on our Japanese producer. He's a helped us since the very almost since the very beginning, and he helps coordinate all of our feedback through Japan, and said Hey, you hey, who's now a dear friend of mine. I was like. Is this possible. Could you look this up? And he and the Japanese team reached out to their to their state across our state and worked out You know. They wanted to see video so I. Put together a video, and then I redid it like three times because enough. People on time video, but I was like Austin. Even Brian Our leauge rendering Guy Jasmine. He was not good. No. Though I kinda Redid it a couple of times and then eventually Is this. Is it I? I looked at so many movies measured the black and white. You know in our game. You know as you both played it. Daytime Times. There's indoor's whether there's rain. There's fog and so like you have to look at movies that have all of these things you can't just be like. Here's a movie. Here's a sample. It's the black. Man Like you gotTa. Look at all these because they exist in our game and it's a filter that'd be going over all of these and so I finally got to the point where I was, I had good black levels. White levels has cool noise. We sent them a video and and It took a little bit of time back and forth, but eventually we're like asses cooling reach an agreement. They were cool with it so. Yeah it was a it was a coup processing showed up. Is Mode teams all shit? It's called. Is it was pretty cool goal process. It has a dream come true. It's so awesome on a historical level. Because obviously you're seeing the game through its you know from the reveal trailer to now there's clearly a love and Joe Majd to the cinema and the storytelling that come in the John Mara, before it, and so to have that encapsulated as a mood that you can jump into starting to such a great I. Think like touchtone full circle thing as a fan of genres well. Also I mean the. The audio! From from like A. A gigantic Blue Tang Fan. It's it sounded like like RISI's sampling. VHS, tapes of sword slashes, and like there were moments. Paint that game and I was like I expect like method man rapid right now because. If anyone was intended, but that sort of got me on a very very like neural level I was like Oh my God like this is. This is quietly the best. Wu Tang game ever made since. The fighting gave. The quote somewhere I feel. That's. But. Our audio director Brad he that's all him he was like. I have an idea that guy's a wizard, so that usually meant something cool and he. It was like we have this special thing that we developed internally at Sony that replicates old processes from like you know fifty sixty s something like that radios and TV's and and And and he he kind of took that filtered it and figured out the right 'cause he was like. If you do too much over, you know, we wanted people to play lengthy amount of times and if they wanted to the Chrysanthemum. View too much, and it becomes incredibly fatiguing. Like, not watching move hours possibly thirty hours. You know so. You got a nice balance between that and something that you can you know Listen to over and over again? I- legitimated Curacao Mode for Poly Twenty five thirty hours and I think that I like maybe fifty sixty into the game. So how yeah! That's incredible. Yeah, along along with that and to me. It was surreal to play an open world game almost entirely in black and white. That was just I've never done anything like that before and. It was such a cool. It was such a cool experience. One of the challenges with eggs I would add is like since it's black and white. There's there's missions that use color as guiding, and so there are. There are a few missions of. It really struggles with, but for the most part we redesigned icons on the map so that it would work with answer, so you're not just looking at two icons ones. This color ones that color and we just changed the icon Lopate, but but yeah it, it's it's generally speaking. You can play through most of the game with it, which is just crazy. Yeah I think there was one mission where they're like find. The purple flowers was like Oh! I was to right back on, so that was good. Leads to so many great visual moments, and as you were saying I know we're running short on time I. don't want believe the too much, but I, genuinely really loved, and as pointing to earlier the the soundtrack and the way both game uses it. It comes in from quiet to loud, but also how the score changes both from the combat setting to the open world setting you know. Moments I would say not settings, but. That Jackson position as well as even on the side, the remixes that were coming out sort of in the lead up to the Games launch. There's so much great musicality and artistry. Bear that I think really. Elevate, so much of what's going on there on visual rebel to a works so well in tandem. You know there is no single discipline that contributes more to the game. The music like a known this case we have to composers, a team of people that obviously help implemented like their artistry is like. White just level things up so much like a scene without music in a scene with music. There's a world of difference in generally speaking I know it's not one contributor. There's quite a few people that make it happen. Processing and implementation, but it's insane. What music can do in for this game? It's it's. It's one of the best parts of the Game I. Think is the the the artistry behind the music in the soulful fullness in is is really I listened to it a lot. I love and then we tokens the glitch mob. Which is just? RIDICULOUSLY COOL! Yeah, it's an awesome combination i. do think as you were saying. It elevates so many great moments, but really. A drills home like the emotional undercurrent of everything that's going on in the game. Unfortunately. We're pretty much out of time. I think Brandon I could keep talking there so much. We love and really enjoyed about the experience and are continuing to enjoy. Time in this world, so Jason Thank you so much for taking time. We really appreciate it. SUPERFUND and thank thank you to your studio for. bookending this entire console generation with my favorite games. I I don't know if that was ever the plan, but the way that
The World Nomads Podcast
Road-tripping Post COVID-19
"Hi. It's Kim and fill with you a huge thanks for joining into a spatial episode exploring road tripping, and in this episode we discuss specific routes necessarily, but rather tuning to four experts, discussing the rise of road travel as broad as open and travel restrictions begins, as it made covid nineteen, and it is worth. Noting as the US started opening up their economies covid cases began to spike again in some areas by as much as twenty five percent, according to Alfred Christina Tunnel hit of World Medicine for the Americas. Then, Spain the has to be some sort of consideration in how people do a rug trip to minimize further spread. Well, that's what's attractive about Roger Christina's places with campsites and inherits social, distancing like national and state parks will be the preferred destinations. She also says many are allowing people in only by strict daily caps and reservations in some filler, even denying entry to out of state visit you normal, isn't it? Yeah, our first chat is with Joe from harvest hosts which will explain about shortly, but we should put it out there as it pops up during this episode. Commute a huge fan of Roger. I am indeed now we converted, and they'll DVD. G Ten diesel delivery van. And sadly it was just before the pandemic, so emmy use it, but since managed one road trip is restrictions lifted here in New South Wales in Australia. We went to cattle. Farm near applies cold Mudgee, which is nine for its produce in its wine now set up. Is The lady image on the website for these episode by the way, so you can have a look, but they had social distancing rules in place, Ville especially around the drop toilets, where everything had to be wiped down after used it with sanitizer, and if you were lining up for the lose your head to maintain that one point five major distance, but as for the site itself, it's a cattle farm. It was huge. It was so big. It was easy to Cape Away from his. Anyway. That's my story. We kicked up asking Joe. It's not about me if twenty twenty is a banner year for ride travel. Yes hard stop interviews over. Rarely is their question was such an easy answer? I think it was very speculative back in March. It was a lot of up in the air like Whoa. What's going to happen? Never win. Kinda paused. We saw memberships. New memberships really dropped off a cliff. Everyone was kind of nervous about the unknown. What we're seeing now. Is that everything's exploding in the RV world, so our business is up four hundred percent, or versus this time last year we're seeing rental companies like outdoorsy and RV share also up four hundred percent. So I think people are number one. They're ready to get back to traveling and number two. Are Beings a very safe way to do it. Even amidst this Cova crisis. What is safe for them being in your own RV in a spacious area. You know without crowds, so yes, I think this is the year I think this is the year, and I hope it lasts because you and I probably agree are pretty wonderful thing to do. Schori's in fact as offset. Every month during this covered lockdown I want to avoid anything that's hectic and I want to avoid expectation so jumping in the van for me, and just disappearing somewhere is is what I'm GonNa do the racist of the and moving forward. If I can be convinced, my husband to leave, he's job. Man That's so funny. We're about the same I I'm trying to convince my wife to leave her job for the same reasons, unlike this is our opportunity, just like be nomads and and travel right so. I wish you best of luck and. Thanks for that otherwise we could meet halfway. Just travel buddies so. You. You've done it for years just for those that haven't an dabbling NATO's in this world vein. What is the attraction freedom I? Mean again like it's a one word answer, but I think it really captures it for us from my wife and I. We got into are being. Like six years ago and the concept when our heads were like well, wouldn't it be nice to a road trip? It seems so freeing and like open an exciting. When we did it, we fell in love with it. I mean it really is like true unbridled freedom. You make a decision every day about whether you want goanywhere or not, where you WanNa go do you WanNa? Go East West North South. It's great right and for people like US I love traveling, but I don't like sticking to strict plans, Riley. I feel like travels most exciting where you let it take you at once and air travel doesn't do that hotel travel doesn't do that. You have to be very structured about where you're going to be in win, and in the RV like you wake up every morning and make your destiny
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
South Dakota National Parks
"Welcome the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about South Dakota. I'd like to welcome back to the show Gary Art from everything. Dash EVERYWHERE DOT com. Who's come to talk to us? Surprise surprise about national parks. This time about the National Parks of South Dakota Gary. Welcome back to the show. It has been so long. Yeah and we never get to talk so it's always a pleasure. It has been a very short period of time since I talked to carry but we have talked about doing this show since we ran into each other. Probably at Mount Rushmore last October September September. I think yeah. Maybe it's October. But yeah we're going to t backs and and this was totally unplanned. You just happen to be a remote rushmore exact same time. It's one of those odd coincidences that happen. And it doesn't happen to meet all that often but there are some national parks in South Dakota. That are not Mount Rushmore. So where are we going if we go to the National Parks of South Dakota? They're six national park. Service sites in South Dakota and five of them are in the West located in or near the Black Hills. And then there's one all by its lonesome in the east so we might as well talk about that one. I and that is the Missouri River National Recreation area. It lies on the Missouri River as you might guess given the name it is in the charming little town of yanked him. South Dakota believe it or not. I was actually rather curious to visit yanked and because I had read a list several years ago that had the cheapest place to live in America was yanked in South Dakota so it was kind of curious to see I was kind of curious. What kind of community is this? And it's very nice and it's not rundown or anything now it's cheap. It just happens to be in the middle of nowhere and that's why the site is right on the border with Missouri arm starting Nebraska and it's fifty nine mile stretch of the Missouri River. Very nice some very large bluffs that are overlooking the river and a national recreation area. So it's not a park if you go to the visitor center and look to get your National Park Stamp. It is not a visitor center per se. It is the office. So that's where the maintenance vehicles and the office staff and they're all there and in that building there's a very small lobby and they just sort of stick the stamp out there for people that want it but unlike pretty much every other national parks that you go to. There's no movie there's no displays none of that. It's very straightforward. It's just something that you can visit. There's a bridge which goes from South Dakota to Nebraska that crosses the river and that's probably some of the best views you're going to get of the river if you WANNA take some photos. There's a place you can pull out just before the bridge. You can't really stop on the bridge nor can you really walk across the bridge. So that's kind of difficult so you just have to keep those things in mind. It's far enough east for. I think you could easily do day-trip if you happen to be in Sioux falls or if you're driving across the state I mean if you wanted to dip down interstate ninety s the interstate. The kind of runs across South Dakota East West. You could do that if you're a serious national parks. Yeah other than that. There's not a lot there. Well I should say for the listeners. The show who are either not from the US or possibly geographically challenged the Missouri River may not stick out in your mind but Missouri River is the longest river in North America. If you include the merchant into the Mississippi River in Saint Louis even if you don't include the Mississippi part I believe North think it's the Missouri Mississippi Slash Missouri. So if you took if you went from New Orleans and then just kind of banked left at Saint Louis rather than right that would take you further. 'cause THE MISSISSIPPI goes up into northern Minnesota whereas the Missouri goes much further will the I? I'm looking it up in the Missouri River just until it gets to the mouth Where it enters into the Mississippi is well for our European listers who I was mentioning this forest. Thirty seven hundred thirty seven sixty seven kilometers or two thousand three hundred forty one miles. So there's really quite an amazing amount of the length of this river not to mention the fact that it empties into the Mississippi River. The river at this point and yanked is pretty good sized. It's not a rapid river. Anything like that. It's far too big for it if anything else. It kind of gives you an appreciation for the river. Think if you go up to North Dakota there are some sites that are close to the as well and you with Lewis and Clark and these the Missouri kind of as their highway to get to the West speaking of the river. I in South Dakota many times live in Minnesota and I think South Dakota is kind of. There's two half's to the state the east and the West in the dividing line is the Missouri River it kind of goes along Nebraska and then it hooks up in when you're on interstate ninety that goes East West when you cross the river. The geography changes pretty dramatically so on the eastern side of the river. It's really flat. Is Your stereotypical great plains. Corn for miles. Once you cross it then you start to see hills instantly like instantly instantly. And that's a function of the river the meandering of the river in the flood plain and everything has basically scour out everything to the east of it and literally. When you cross the bridge you start to see some hills and that's not the black hills yet but it's kind of building up to that. I think you're still well over one hundred miles away at that point and all of the rest of the parks are in this. Western part of the state in the western part of the state is by far the most interesting. It gets the most tourists. You've heard of pretty much anything. In South Dakota it is to the west of the Missouri River in that Black Hills area. So we're talking deadwood Mount Rushmore while drug everything except the Mitchell Corn Palace.
Rock N Roll Archaeology
History in Five Songs 47: Bands of Individuals
"So this is episode forty seven. We are going to be calling this bands of individuals. I couldn't think of a snappier title. But this basically explains this concept and it's actually a pretty elevated concept If you don't mind me saying this is something I've always felt and it's an episode. I've been burning to do So let's just get to it. I mean essentially One funny thing about this episode is it's not very heavy metal or hard rock. Although I am going to be mentioning a lot of bands that are hard. Rock and heavy metal but my examples per se are not particularly in that field. But I am going to end with a with a classic heavy metal band so So all shall be forgiven. I hope by the end of this. I might mention a few Honorable Mentions Myself All right so we're GONNA do this one a little bit differently. I hope it doesn't go on too long. I probably will shorten up when it comes to the actual entries but I have a little bit of a along intro here so I went to you the fine listeners. And and said hey give me some examples of this and it's kind of funny The example started flowing in and I'm going to read some of those in in a second But what I realized when I was reading these examples is I'm not too clear on what my concept is for this. I hope by the end of this episode and when you hear examples you're GonNa understand what has always been stuck in my brain for decades essentially about bands. That are like this why I think there are certain bands truly truly truly like this. So let's just get on with that so I sent. I sent off a facebook cry for help here So what did I say here so So here's a really cool concept that I'm at four at need one. More as I said bands of individuals and ecosystem is created with a clear north South East and West. It's an ecosystem that has not one world but four five teams that comprise a complex world. I've thought this for years about these four bands. But do you get my drift strode. A few band names and if one of them just hits me like a lightning bolt. I'll know it but I don't want to explain further or debated. Let's save that for the episode. Only one of my choices is remotely a metal band. So that's what I wrote And yet just to explain a little more before. I read some of these Entries the idea here is that these bands create almost like You know you think of a little Snow Globe that you shakeup and there. There's the snowflakes in there. There's this enclosed world that is a weird world but very importantly this world is not one that ends up being kind of a unified sounding thing that a lot of other band's sound like it is a world unto itself that's number one but number two it does have an east west North and south. I mean it. Basically sounds like a world of individual players or Feifdoms that is making this up so doesn't sound like particularly like a unified whole. It sounds like a band or a record or song that you listened to where you can't get the members themselves out of your head when you're listening to it. You don't think the band name you think all of these original members jumbled up together at once. I think that explains it probably pretty well but let me tell you quickly and what I'm going to do here is I'm going to leave out. The bans That were suggested that are actually my choices anyways. And I'm just going to go through some of these very quickly dispelled the notion of why didn't include the more. How they they? Almost clay came close. Oh so we've got vanya Derek. I mentioned led Zeppelin Queen Cream and Russia. Okay all of those are pretty close but no cigar. They had certain things about them. That were almost two unified Long Story But those ones are are all pretty close but let's see Jacob Tannahill said sons of Apollo Mister Big Asia. Any one of them fit the bill and I actually almost thought Asia that I would include But Yeah I think he's getting the point here Sons of Apollo definitely. You know the big the big You know important band members. Asia supergroup The police New York Doll says Thomas Hackney also the pretenders I would say no on the pretenders I would. That wouldn't have come to mind. I wouldn't New York dolls that come to mind. Police is one of my honorable mention so with that band. You know you are thinking This this chicken scratch sort of textured a guitar playing from Andy. You know base. I don't think you think of sting so much base but you think of that vocalist and then also I with Stewart Copeland. You definitely get a unique drummer. That is a distraction. I mean you're thinking of him when you're hearing these police songs so yes that's a good example of what we're getting at here. Augusta Garcia parade. As mentioned the clash. I would say no I don't. It doesn't really fit the bill here. Thomas Hackney comes up with AKS little bit. That's kind of cool. One Eagles Blazed Barshop. Says no I wouldn't say so Going to leave Well no I'm not going to leave this one because I kick them out. Pat conners has fleetwood Mac. I actually was include fleetwood Mac but I couldn't see myself playing a fleetwood Mac song as one of our five choices here but definitely you get the yet. This is a perfect example. And like I say I was one of mine that was on the at the top of my head. You get. Basically these. Three distinct vocalists are all with their personalities and their baggage in their own solo albums. The whole bit Stevie Nicks Christie. Make Christine mcvie his Christine. Yeah and Lindsey Buckingham All very distinct vocalists. And you also get You Know Mick. Fleetwood is the is kind of the the patriarch of the ban. But you had get this very stripped down drumming John mcvie Idaho. Don't really think of him too much in this but Lindsay as well you think of a very distinct Sort of I said chicken. Scratch already with Andy Summers. Chicken scratch makes a lot more sense with Lindsay So again you're listening to fleetwood Mac song or a few in a row and you're thinking oh when's this focus gonNA sing or that one or oh. They're they're doing this together And then and then. Lindsey gives you this very stark guitar Solo And and you get this very sort of straight line B line kind of Feel to a of their songs so that is a ban when you're listening to them. I can't get the members individually out of their heads hence bands of individuals. Okay
Software Engineering Daily
NGINX Service Mesh with Alan Murphy
"Allen Murphy. Welcome to the show. Thanks Jeff thanks for having me you were with F. Five beginning back in two thousand five. This was about fifteen years ago. Described the load balancer market. When you started at the company it was all hardware. I mean it was big big iron big volume the bigger the better our customers back then were founded two camps. They were either colocation a data center. They were running their own but either way to customers who were buying a five hardware or aggregating tons of data through those boxes so we dealt with a lot of really high volume clients and then a lot of more geographically distributed technology like global s to be able to distribute traffic between multiple data centers in Colo but it was all just massive ingress single point. Traffic Win was there. This industry shift from physical load balancing infrastructure toward in augmentation of the software based load balancing. I think the big shift came. I guess the first indication that shift was coming was when Colo's and data center companies started offering more segmented in granular services companies like rex basis. Great example they did a great job. Kind of changing the market away from single point service single point entry to more virtualization distributed services. So there's definitely a movement at the data center level back then or maybe around two thousand ten two thousand nine hundred like that but the big shift. No question was cloud and it was the reliability the stability in the cost and accessibility associated with cloud. And that immediately flip the switch of conversation from hardware to software and from single point aggregate traffic management to distributed traffic management and did that causing the other downstream effects in the market like as we went from physical load balancing to software based load balancing. Sure I think it solved too big right. I should say introduced to big changes to the way companies handle their application infrastructure. One was that the more you software if you use that as a verb Maurice software the more granular. They can start managing their traffic so instead of just having his front door service that we used to call the bigger hardware aggregation point instead of having a front door service. They could start managing traffic managing that door. So that kind of that first step gate closer and closer to the APP so further down the stack. I think that was a huge downstream. Change that moving to software naval virtual leising traffic management itself enabled and then I think the second one was the change of ownership so before they were typically one or two teams that were responsible for all of the traffic management functionality because they handled it all in that shift to software in that desegregation of the application stack of the services of the traffic management brought new teams into managing traffic. And today. We're we're talking with devops. You know down in the weeds. Day to day development engineers who have to deal with traffic management so huge changes downstream and the shift to software define networking was this all managed by commodity infrastructure or. Were there still specialized types of servers that needed to be used to host the load balancing and networking infrastructure. As things. Move to the cloud? I think it came down to what type of traffic was being managed. I think commodity whether it's hardware-software commodity for your run of the mill. Http traffic can absolutely be handled by a number of different services in different form factors in different locations and environments but when we talk about very specialized traffic management or the the function of that traffic management. You start to see less and less commoditisation. So if we're talking about their application aware traffic management for what we now call. East WEST TRAFFIC SERVICE TO SERVICE. Traffic for micro services. There's still a level of awareness and understanding environment the kind of moves it out of the commodity requirement or commodity bucket. And then if we're talking about really specialized traffic for service providers for financial institutions that have kind of their own way of formatting traffic of passing traffic but also traffic reliability. I think they're still absolutely a need for specialized components whether again those are hardware-software on Prem cloud doesn't matter the the more specifically towards the application need the more will still need specialized very very fine tuned application delivery software hardware. I do want to eventually get to a discussion of modern software defined traffic networking and Specifically Service Mesh Conversation. But since you've worked in this area for for so long and you've interacted with a lot of different client basis. You just mentioned that different verticals might have different needs for the hardware. Perhaps the software that they use to manage their networking infrastructure so financial services for example. Tell me more about how different verticals might have different needs for the networking infrastructure? Sure we definitely say it again if we're talking hardware software but it's a really interesting space to kind of zero in on what those differences are talk about a couple of examples so financial fintech fencer. Those companies are very very dependent on insanely high reliability. And it makes sense right. We need low. Latency high volume transactions for things like economic trading. We need the ability to embed security controls into the application language itself. The application traffic language so Fintech. They're very focused on something like low latency high availability if you look at service provider kind of four g historic service provider also very concerned with low latency but massive massive volumes of very large types of traffic. So we're talking about over. The top providers companies like Netflix need to distribute their content over service provider network those companies that service providers are very very focused on high resiliency high availability. But for much much bigger larger traffic patterns than you'd seen Fintech for example five G. brings a whole different scope to that because now we're talking about pushing services closer to the edge containerization still that high volume but now the ability to carve out that traffic in a different way that we would in a traditional infrastructure I think healthcare is another very interesting one because security regulations government control over that data or rather government control over how that data is used in access is paramount. Way also talk a lot about remote working when we're in healthcare prior to everything that's going on today. We talk a lot about big big software components that need to reside on site but they need to communicate back to a centralized secure cloud environment. So then we're talking about regulations and how to keep data sandbox and highly secure. So it's really really interesting to these. Larger verticals do have these different traffic necessities that require either specialized components or at least very their application aware components and F. Five. Now is the owner of engine necks. And we'RE GONNA be talking somebody today. You've spent considerable time working at F. Five as well as in genetics and both of these companies are heavily used products to define the the networking infrastructure for different companies so it. Fiv historical application has been the hardware load balancer. But it's moved into a lot of different software services that are required for networking. Dns infrastructure in. Genetics has been used as an edge proxy for a long time cashing infrastructure reverse proxy ing. Load balancing. I like to understand the acquisition from your point of view when f five acquired engine X. Why did that acquisition make sense? As you mentioned I was at the genetic side when acquisition happened from the moment I was super excited. It made complete sense to me when I left at five. Had been there for about ten years as you mentioned so let's in two thousand fifteen and the F. Five culture at the time was very much focused on helping customers support their software their drive the software and it was an exciting time at five but at the same time there was also this kind of internal understanding that hardware is still an important factor absolutely drives a lot of the customer requests and we still have those verticals that we talked about like service provider in two thousand fifteen when I left him of two genetics. It was a great opportunity to focus on as you mentioned the exact opposite side of that coin which is one hundred percent software but also one hundred percent. Devops an application focused deployments so all of our customers engineers were focused on application level. Reverse proxy and embedding that reverse proxy functionality. As literally close to the APP as you can get in today. We'll talk about sidecars a few minutes in that regard but it was very much focused on software. Only get the packet to the APP and then let's figure out how to handle it soon as it gets into our environment and software space so when the acquisition happened even with that kind of four year gap between Lena Five and then rejoining it made perfect sense to me because it kind of melded. The Best of those two worlds but also filled gaps where f five is predominantly hardware. Front door service with Dr. The software engineer was virtually one hundred percent software but starting to deal with kind of higher level network in order. That things like containerized networks. Bring in so that being able to put those two together of hardware network deep history understanding software application delivery deep industry understanding. Bring those together. It just filled both gaps so eloquently so perfectly made perfect sense and I was super excited to come back into F. Five with that software mentality and win that acquisition happened. You help build out some of the strategies for integrating with cloud providers and this is an interesting strategic task to build. Because you have these these gigantic cloud infrastructure providers that are to some extent providing commodity services in. And then you have. They have their specialized services that they built as well. But there was this huge reorientation while the orientation reorientation in the Industry. That's still going on. For how companies that are not cloud providers companies that are not these gigantic infrastructure providers integrate with the cloud providers tell me about defining the strategy for F. Five to integrate with cloud providers. I can speak first to the engineer strategy in the work that we did there in my role when I first joined in. Genetics was to help design some of that from the technology perspective. So what are the where the technology roadblocks? What are the hurdles? We need to get around what we need to provide those cloud providers from the genetic space and we were very fortunate because we had such a huge market awareness and breadth of deployment at engine X. Pretty much everybody in the world is using in genetics. So that in itself was driving questions back to us of. Hey we're moving our infrastructure into aws for example or GCP. We WanNa take that same functionality of genetics into that environment so on paper it was a literal transition. You're running engineering software on PREM PICK IT UP and move wherever you want still works today and we had so many customers who follow that model but at the same time we also had customers as you mentioned who are coming to US insane. Were either trying to build more intelligence into the cloud platform. We don't want to do just lifting shift or we WANNA consume some of the tried and true in Jenex resources through a consumption based model in the cloud so we had as you'd expect a really really strong marketplace offerings and all the cloud providers to someone could purchase genetics in a consumption based model. That was fine but we also spent a tremendous amount of time working with those providers on what value can engine x. Helped bring them in today. Some of the the largest platform tools incorporate engineering a lot of people use genetics without realizing its genetics. Because we have that flexibility and
American Fashion Podcast
Lafayette 148 New York: Fantastically Vertical
"We are a global luxury lifestyle brand Led by women for women and the whole purpose of starting. The company was to be a vertical operation vertical. Meaning that we make everything ourselves So from start to finish we. We're able to control the process of manufacturing as well and you know we although we were founded in New York City. The company sort of outgrew the building and also knew that. We wanted to reinvest in some retail and in order to do that A. and Being a privately owned company. We're quite conservative. We decided to if we moved over to Brooklyn our rent. When I started the company it was nine dollars. A Square foot Twenty three years later it was ninety dollars a square foot so expensive so kind of expensive. So we we just you know. How do you re- reinvest in Your Business Model? So you know the number one expense for the company. Is the product the number two expenses? The people and number three was the rent so we went for number three because we didn't want to touch one into And found mazing hundred thousand square feet in the Brooklyn Navy Yard which is eight minutes by Uber from Lafayette Street and we collectively made a decision that this was great and we went to save money. But what we found was being on one floor completely changed the communications and the dynamics of how we work as a group so the culture which I think in today's world is such an important part of a business Our culture got better. It was good but it got great. Can you talk a little bit more about being a conservative business? Because I think a lot of people think about financing immediately when they're starting a business lately but but you haven't touched much of that well you know the first five years were really hard for the company and so not being Not Having the capital investments that may be other people had. We had to learn to live within our means. So what we would do. Is You know what we make. We would reinvest into the business. And so what what does is your growth is is more organic. Because you decide how you're going to grow how you're gonNA invest in in different areas when you want to grow and you don't WanNa you know. Look we all make mistakes? There's always a percentage of rnd and things that happened in in our business that you didn't predict but you know definitely we thought we needed a million dollars to start the company and ten million later we ran out of money and that was weird ca fears. You know the first five years Taught us a lot about what we didn't want to do in the future and you had to co-founders in the beginning I did and the Chinese AMERICANS SO MR and Mrs Sue were husband and wife team that manufactured clothes for me throughout my career Working at La's clayborn Donna. Karen Dana Buckman. So they were always there. They were always that jacket factory and yours needed great jacket in our industry That I could count on. You know they. They might have not been the cheapest factory because they were in New York City but they were reliable. Their quality was incredible and they were really nice. People that you could count on and so that relationship I kept throughout all the years whether or not I made close with them. 'cause it eventually. I moved to Hong Kong and started working for Germans and Italians and they didn't WanNA manufacturer New York so we just stayed friends and when it came back they asked me if I wanted to start a business with them and just the thought of not having to travel all over the world finding cheaper factories and being able to control the quality. The delivery the products Was Right up my alley. And they were just amazing. People that moved to America when they were in their teens they are forty years in America. They were you know They were that generation. Just like my parents were that came to the US to sort of you know. Build their dream In funding and in this case they ended up having to go back to their hometown. After forty years to rebuild our dream because in order to be competitive we had to move the factory if we wanted to stay vertical and you have an amazing sustainable complex in China. We have a fabulous. What you've built there. Yeah talk about that from the beginning and just training and what? That was what that was like. It's kind of fascinating okay. So you know We went over. Actually it was right after nine eleven and by the end of two thousand and one Mr Mrs Sue went home for the holidays and then he called me and told me he wanted to move the factory and by May of two thousand and two He flew me over there for one night to see the factory which consisted of three sewers a cutter in oppressor and just wanted to know what I thought of the factory. I was pretty speechless but I was smart enough to know that you know I could count on him so I asked him what he thought. And he said we're going to be just fine and he made sure we were justifying. He went from Ten Thousand Square feet to twenty thousand to forty thousand to the next time I visited him. He pulled up to an empty lot. And said what do you think and it was like? What did you do any says like bought the land And we're going to build our own facility. I want a building that is earthquake. Proof that sustainable. That's got solar panels on the roof for energy that that I can be comfortable Building in so he proceeded in less than two years to build a two hundred forty thousand square foot manufacturing facility that is state of the art incredible and today houses fifteen hundred people twelve hundred of which are sewers And you know anyone that visits it and plenty of important people have been from you know from the president. Fit's been there to to Mac Baucus. Who was the US ambassador to China and they all come there just to see what we've done and you know You know in our industry people just assume. Oh is it you know. Is it an acceptable factory? It's beyond acceptable. It's it's the pride of his hometown. So him and her really made a difference in their hometown. So was there a lot in terms of how he built the Culture In the quality of the factory in New York that was also taken there. And then you also side how to go so much. Further in terms of technology like to that. Just come naturally. No those are great questions. Because you know Mr superbeing factory New York City Was was getting smaller and smaller over the years. So technology was always a really important part of staying and surviving. So he was. He was ahead of his time in investing in whether it the Italian pressing machines or or or automatic cutting machines like all of this was sort of early. It was in his culture. Anyway you know when I think in East West Culture you know he used to. The First Holiday Party I went to I was there was only two people that weren't Chinese at the party. And he said turned to me and he said someday I wanted to be fifty fifty and you know he got he. He dreamed he dreamed really big but he wasn't a dreamer. He was a man that also taught you how to get the job done. You know you can rely on him and so he went back to his hometown and brought an American culture of manufacturing and also started teaching some of the local factories. How he would do it how we would do in the USA so you know. There was just an incredible ability to give back to the town. I mean after the factory was up and running of course we started to become profitable which was extremely exciting because after five tough years it was like wow when we could do hand embroideries and we could do leather in knits and things that we couldn't do in New York so it really helped us build at lifestyle brand but along with you know along with that You know he. He had to set up everything everything right. You know. Every there's eleven floors in the building each floor has different Sort of manufacturing system. You know there's there's a jacket floor. There's a blouse floor. There is a panton skirt floor. You know he built a building without columns in it and I don't know if anyone can say they've seen a modern building in China with twenty thousand square feet per floor without columns. But that's what you get to do when you build your own building you. You didn't have to figure out how the machinery would be laid out around these polls. So you know He. He was very amazing man.
Science Talk
Flat Earthers: What They Believe and Why
"This is scientific. American science talk posted on March. Twenty seven twenty twenty. I'm Steve Mirsky. I'm going to let my guest introduce himself in a moment because he does a better job than I could. Midway through the following discussion. We'll take a break for a short segment sponsored by the Calveley prize with Caltech Planetary Astronomer. Michael Brown who has done groundbreaking work though solar system breaking work on the Kuyper belt and its largest members. His segment is not unrelated to what will be talking about now. It's not about corona virus. You'll find some parallels to how some people are reacting to corona virus. Buckle up so I'm Michael Marshall and I'm the project director of the good thinking society which is a charity based in the UK the whole purpose charities to promote science to challenge pseudoscience. So we'll do work Ford Science Education and then another PA the work that we do. The bulk of my work is to find ideas. That aren't backed by evidence and find people who are promoting those ideas find people who are buying into those ideas and to explore them and figure out if anything can be done to prevent people being confused by them Hound by the misled by them and those kinds of things. So I spent a lot of time looking at things like alternative cancer kills and the people who promote those and alternative medicine spent a lot my time going to see people who say they can talk dead. Oku can do faith healing and then another part of my time is spent token people who believe in unusual ideas and kind of proponents. And that's how I came across the flat. Earth world is through my slightly odd a hobby at the time before I was working. Fulltime as as a skeptic is a hobby of mine to be in rooms filled if he who disagree with me to just understand what brings people to ideas that. I would look at and say well. This can't be true. These kind of fringe and extreme and unusual beliefs. What brings people to believe them? And what what? What kind of path leave people there will? Evidence supports supports that position in their minds. And how do they engage with the world with that worldview and try and have conversations? Podcast where I talked to people who have kind of fringe beliefs and instead of having a conversation that a lot of people have if they are a skeptic about something and they're talking to believe where you shout at them and tell them never home and point out all the evidence and tell you gets into a volatile discussion sometimes instead of that. I've tried to have a civil and polite chat to try and explore the gap between us. So I don't believe in this idea of yours but I'm reading to figure out why I don't believe it. Why do so? Let's have a conversation? So have these kind of civil discussions and that's kind of how I came across That the flatter theory and the idea that there are people walking around today. Who think well this flat. This is really interesting and serendipitous that were sitting here because I knew that there were some flatter. Thor's out there and I just thought it was kind of strange and funny and about a week ago I discovered a friend of mine who is very well educated. She got a doctorate in biochemistry and She has a sister who's also very intelligent and very well educated and my friend told me that her sister is a flatter and that her sister is very indignant about the idea that We don't take them seriously and she said something to the effectiveness is hearsay. That we're getting for me right now. That will you know if you looked at the evidence. Then you'd know that what you've been told isn't true. So all of a sudden became fascinated with the flat earth people and then Just on twitter and I had I had been a follower verve yours until I saw this tweet that somebody I follow must've re tweeted that you had just given a talk in Edinburgh where I have been and So I reached out to you and it turns out you live in Liverpool and here I am in Liverpool today. So that's why we're here talking so tell me what do the flat Earth People Think and why do they think it so to your packet question that will bit because it's very easy for us to see the flat? Earth Movement is one singular cohesive movement and. That's how I I thought about it when I first came across in two thousand thirteen when I came across the flutter society in the UK. And so I had a conversation with the vice president of the Flat Earth Society and I assumed you probably have in your mind that people who believe the world is flat thing that the world's disk and in the center you've got the Arctic Circle then you've got all the continents of the world are splayed out to fill the circle. Antarctica is like the edge of disk. But I found out when I first spoke to flatter societies that not everyone in the world has that version of the world and the heads. Some do believe it's a disc but others believe that. Yes the Arctic Circle in the middle the landmasses around it and then on top Around the edge but instead of it being discreet disc some people believe in fact Antactica just on forever and all directions and so they believe that the earth is actually an infinite plane in all directions that bisects reality which is a really lovely idea. What does that mean by? Second three dollars so it will go on. North South East West go on forever and there is the above and the below. But there's no way of getting from the top to the bottom because it's just infinity of all ice in all directions forever so there's no way of getting below the earth and so this was when. I first came across the floor of moving in two thousand thirteen. This quite vociferous debate that was going on and the website of the three in the flat. Earthers yeah it was. It was quite a schism really and so they'd the society. The the time was largely a forum where they would bring forth that proofs of one version this theory or another and I also think there's another schism going on in the movement at the time Which is between one side which people who genuinely really believed the world was flat and the other side which after he did not believe it but enjoyed intellectual pursuit of arguing a position than you false and so they would find quite esoteric off the wall proofs that most people wouldn't think of and so when I first came across it in two thousand thirteen there are people waiting into these arguments who believe the world is round but had never thought about it the fall but just assumed innocent of arrogant way that they must know better than anybody who's thought about it and come to a different conclusion and so they were stumping into these arguments saying well what about photos of the earth from space and what about this and what about ships going with the rise in thinking. Well this is the Gotcha but not realizing that those are the first things they thought about that. They thought the world approved walls around. And therefore it's probably likely that people who think the world is flat had the same idea and yet they're still flat earth So at least in their mind they must have a good answer to that. The people believe the world was round in these arguments. Didn't have 'cause they'd never scrutinize the idea. They rejecting enough and so what was happening. Was I think to a degree? The part of the schism that were just having fun and move very well. The world wasn't flat but just enjoyed the pursuit of doing that. They will winning those arguments of people who are coming in and arrogantly assuming that they could answer everything and in winning those arguments they were really converting even more people who really believed it. And so you had this kind of effect where we saw spiral out of control a little bit. But I think it it wasn't viral in the way that in two thousand thirteen and a as a in the way that it was in two thousand sixteen in two thousand seventeen. I'm think PA that is because that ISA teric off wall version of proofs could be quite complicated to get your head around so for example if you have the disc version the world and the infinite plane version both muddles suffer from an inability to explain gravity. You don't have the spherical mass united central mass of a central point pulling it all two to one point So it's very difficult to explain. Gravity neither one models but these people who are doing kind of East Tarik arguments are saying well what gravity gravity and accelerate falls towards the ground. Think nine point. Eight meters per second. Squared accelerates downwards. They said that is identical to a world in which the ground accelerates upwards to meet you and so when you let go of something it isn't that it's accelerating downwards that it's the grounds accelerating up to meet it Sephora relativity and that's this is exactly where they come to you so people then say when if ground is if the earth is an infinite in all directions that by sex reality and is accelerating open at nine seconds and always has been since the dawn of time. You'd hit a problem which would be the speed of light. You can't go fast so people don't have a Gotcha for this. And so the people who were putting forth esoteric the wall trobisch arguments would say well look at Einstein's theory of relativity as you approach light speed time itself slows down and the mats in their head works back out again so yes beginning. Quick time getting slower and we can account for gravity in that way. And that's quite a complicated auditing Enron. And so I think the fact that these people were winning arguments was getting converting some people movement but the way in which they were winning them were keeping people away from the movement because they were quite complex ideas to you. Couldn't stick them on a mean as you can these days. Here's a picture of the earth. You couldn't explain all that stuff about the relatively proving gravitate infinite plane version of the world. So I think it was a limiting factor going on and that's why when I first came across the free movement it was probably still pretty small. Pretty unknown I've been given talks about pseudoscience for the last five six plus years and I've mentioned that I came across the Flat Earth. Moving and people would always say to me this. Nobody who actually believes that nobody actually doesn't really exist. That people having fun with stay quite small and then in. Twenty fifteen in two thousand sixteen a couple of things happened that really ignited a movement and it was the publishing of two videos on Youtube video series on Youtube. One I believe was Eric. Debate tuned approves the Spinning Globe. And the other was mark sergeants. Fourteen videos in his letter clue series.