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"The Constitution of the United States" With Author Gregg Jarrett
"Me was how prescient our founders were as casting they this were new form of government and our Constitution and our Bill of Rights John Adams warned unscrupulous that men in power if left unchecked would become in his words ravenous beasts of prey destroying our government and aren't we seeing that mark unfold lately the weaponization by unelected bureaucrats at the FBI the Department of Justice our intelligence sees concocting the Russia hoax to drive a president from office because they loathed his policies and they hated him pure abuse power George Washington in his farewell address openly worried that the creation of political parties in their infancy back then would become what he called potent engines of unprincipled men who would define our freedoms counseled vigorously against them to no avail we should have listened to him you know I can go through transcendent figures like Frederick Douglas Lincoln Susan Abraham B Anthony Teddy Roosevelt but in my lifetime the oratory masterful of Ronald Reagan really struck a note with me and it began with his time for choosing speech in he 1964 emerged on the national stage and he warned of this all too powerful government controlling our lives and when elected he followed up Agarwal in addressing his government is not the solution to our problem government is the problem of course he lifted the nation in the sadness after the Challenger disaster but the next year standing at the Brandenburg Gate he challenged Gorbachev tear down this wall the walking crumbling down and so did the Soviet Empire the Cold War so top of my list Ronald Reagan wow that's great great mine too I think he's the third greatest president and the number one in my history one and two I have Washington and I have Lincoln not because that's the go -to list it's because having studied their lives as long as I have as well I just don't think there's a lot of question about it yeah because Washington in particular I mean was a remarkable man tremendous leadership both in battle and as a statesman of course Lincoln what he had to do I mean he was pressured to settle he was pressured to allow the South to go he was under enormous pressure given all the casualties that were taking place as you know and he of course was starting to lose the support of the Union he was up
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A highlight from David Brooks on How To Know A Person
"Turbulent times call for clear -headed insight that's hard to come by these days, especially on TV. That's where we come in. Salem News Channel has the greatest collection of conservative minds all in one place. People you know and trust, like Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and more. Unfiltered, unapologetic truth. Find what you're searching for at snc .tv and on Local Now Channel 525. Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale at hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there, and of course, to listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues. All of them at hillsdale .com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Inside the Beltway this morning, I'm so glad you joined me. I want to talk with you about this book. David Brooks's brand new How to Know a Person, The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. David joins me now. Hello, David. How are you? It's good to be with you again. It's good to talk to you. David, I'm used to getting books, and I got yours for free. They get sent to me. I want to tell you I'm going to buy six copies of How to Know a Person, three for my children and their spouses, and three for friends who are no longer friends that I want them to read. I wonder if you've had other people tell you that they're going to be buying your book to give to other people. Yeah, thank you for being generous on Twitter about the book. I appreciate it. Yeah, no, I've had people buy it for all their employees. I've had people buy it for the families. I haven't heard about buying it for ex -friends, but it's a good strategy. It is. We just live in these brutalizing times. It is. And my book is supposed to be a missile directed right at that. It's about the precise skills of how do you get to know someone, how do you make them feel respected, seen, heard. How do you make them feel respected, seen, and heard? I know why my friends are not my friends anymore. It's because of Donald Trump. They thought me insufficiently outraged about Donald Trump, and I can't bridge that gap, right? I can't be other than what I am, which is I voted for him twice, and if he's the nominee, I'll vote for him again. But they don't understand it, and I don't know that they're trying to understand. I don't understand them either, but I think How to Know a Person has assisted me. So, congratulations. Let me also tell you, I told our mutual friend Bob Barnett that I was telling people about your book in Miami as I prepared for the debate, because my wife and I talked about one statistic in particular, one paragraph actually, on page 98. Thirty -six percent of Americans reported they felt lonely frequently or almost all of the time, including 61 percent of young adults, 51 percent of young mothers. The percentage of Americans who said they have no close friends quadrupled between 1990 and 2020. 54 percent of Americans reported that no one knows them well. That is an extraordinary raft of terrible news, David. Yeah, and I found it's hard to build a healthy democracy on top of a rotting society, and so when this people are filled with loneliness and sadness, it turns into meanness, because if you feel yourself unseen, invisible, there's nothing crueler than feeling that people think you don't exist, and you get angry, and you lash out, and we have these school shootings. We have bitter politics. We've got the brutality of what's happening on college campuses right now, where Jewish students are being blockaded out of classrooms or have the recipients of genocidal how to build a friendship, how to make people feel that you're included, and these are basic social skills like the kind you could be taught at like learning carpentry or tennis or something like that. It's how do you listen well, how do you disagree well, how do you sit with someone who's got depression, how do you sit with someone who's contemplating suicide, how do you sit with someone who disagrees with you fundamentally on issues, and I just try to walk through the basic skills, and in my view, there in any group of people, there are two sorts. There's diminishers, the people who stereotype ignore, they don't ask you questions, they just don't care about you, and then there's another sort of person who are illuminators, and they are curious about you, they respect you, they want to know your life story, and they make you feel lit up and heard, and my goal in writing the book was partly social, because we need these skills to be a decent society, and partly personal. I just want to be better at being an illuminator. I think it comes through in the book. I listened to your interview with Katie Couric and her colleague, who I don't know, and they were trying to get at a question a couple of times, I'm gonna try and land that plane. Why did David Brooks write this book? Well, I'll give you the personal reason. You know, some people, if anybody watched Fiddler on the Roof, you know how warm and huggy Jewish families can be. I grew up in the other kind of Jewish family, and our culture was think Yiddish, act British, so we had love in the home. We just didn't express it. We were not a huggy family. We were all cerebral up here, and then when I was 18, the admissions officers at Columbia, Wesleyan, and Brown decided to actually go to the University of Chicago, which was also a super cerebral place. My favorite thing about Chicago, it's a Baptist school where atheist professors teach Jewish students St. Thomas Aquinas, and so I went into the world of journalism where we just Frederick Buechner once put it, if you cut yourself off from true connection with others, you may save yourself a little pain because you won't be betrayed, but you're cutting yourself off from the holy sources of life itself, and so I just wanted to be better at being intimate with other people. I've heard you now three times, read in your book, heard you tell it to Katie, and heard you tell it to me, the anecdote about the University of Chicago, the anecdote about Yiddish and British, but what is new is you brought up Buechner, and I've never read Buechner. I now know his backstory, which is so tragic. You include it in the book. I did not know he had a tragic backstory that illumines his character for me, and maybe I will go and read it, but you're in interview mode. How many different book interviews have you done? Uh, probably 20 or more. I don't know a lot. You're definitely, I know what that's like, where you want to get through an interview, and you want to make sure that people, you land the point, and I want to get a little bit deeper than that. I want to find out if you're with your self -examination. There's been a David Brooks self -examination underway for a long time, but you have not yet written your book about God. Are you going to go there? Yeah, well, at the end of The Second Mountain, I wrote a book about my spiritual journey, and how I grew up, my phrase was religiously bisexual, so I grew up in a Jewish home, but I went to a church school, and I went to a church camp, so I had the story of Jesus in my God. And then when I was 50 or so, reality seemed porous to me. It seemed like we're not just a bunch of physical molecules. You know, I once, I was in subway in New York City in God's ugliest spot on the face of the earth, and I look around the subway car, and I see all these people, and I decide all these people have souls. There's some piece of them that has no size, weight, color, or shape, but gives them infinite value and dignity, and their souls could be soaring, their souls could be hurting, but all of us have them. And once you have the concept of the soul in your head, it doesn't take long before the concept of God is in your head. And so I went off, especially about 10 years ago, and it's still going on a spiritual journey of just trying to figure out what do I believe? And I learned when you're on a journey like that, Christians give you books, and so I got like 700 books sent to me, only 350 of which were different copies of Christianity by C .S. Lewis. And so that was my journey. And it didn't, it was very slow and gradual. There were some dramatic moments, but not a lot. But I realized, oh, I'm not an atheist anymore, and my heart has opened up to something. And I think this book is the extension of that. When your heart opens up to God, and if every person you meet, you think this person was made in the image of God, I'm looking at somebody so important, Jesus was willing to die for that person, then I've got to show them the respect that God would show them. I've got to try to see them with the eyes that Jesus would see them with. And that's a super high standard that I'm not going to meet, but it's a goal. And Jesus says, even in brutal, tough times, He sees people, He sees the poor. And the main thing He does is Jesus is always asking questions. Somebody asks Him a question, He asks them a question back. And that act of questioning, what you do for a living, that's a show of respect. And that's the doorway to seeing someone. And so to me, I think questions are a moral act that we're phenomenal at when we're kids. And then we get a little worse at it. And I come sometimes leave a party and think that whole time nobody asked me a question. And I've come to think like only 30 % of the people in the world are question askers. And so part of the thing I do in the book is just try to say, here are some generous things to do to ask people questions. It is a, that is the key takeaway, how to ask questions. And this is a skill set. I sent a note this morning to my friend, Jan Janur, who has been running a Christian ministry for 30 years called The Wild Adventure. He wrote a book called Turning Small Talk into Big Talk. And I was reminded of it. Yours is a longer, more complicated examination of the art of asking questions and why you want to do so. It's also, it reminded me a lot of C .S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory. You have never met an ordinary human being. Everyone is an eternal horror, an everlasting splendor, and you believe that and you get to it. And I want to talk about how one gets there, but I want to begin, interestingly enough, with a comment Katie Couric made you. And I listened to that yesterday. I'd finished your book last week and I made my notes last night. And then I listened to Katie Couric interview. She spontaneously brought up her interview with Sarah Palin. Why do you think she did that, David? I like Katie a lot. And she's been a guest on my show. I loved her memoir, at least the first two thirds of it, which was about her younger life, which I thought was fascinating. Why do you think she brought up the Sarah Palin interview? I was also struck by that because I don't think she talks about it enough. I know Katie from various things and I don't think she talks about it all that much. I think it was a time when she was asking questions and somebody just wasn't answering. It was a time when she was having a miscommunication. I imagine that's why she wrote up. Do you have another theory? I do. I think it's because she's been misunderstood because of that question and that she wants people who only know Katie Couric because of that question to know that that's not Katie Couric. And that, to me, it was it made perfect sense she used to be known. And that's the central theme of this. People want to be seen. They want to be known. And if you are known for the wrong thing, in this case, the Katie Couric Sarah Palin interview, you want to you want to get that off your cargo ship, right? You want that unloaded. And I thought, wow, you really the book worked on her. Let me tell you also, on page 134, you talk about face experiments with infants. I want them outlawed. David, what did you think when you read it? I think those are cruel and awful. Tell people about them. Yeah, so babies come out of the womb wanting to be seen. Baby's eyes, they see everything 18 inches away in sharpness. Everything else is kind of blurry because they want to see mom's face. And these experiments that you referred to are called still face experiments. The babies send a bid for attention. And the moms are instructed, don't respond, just be still face. And in the beginning, the babies are uncomfortable. And then after a few seconds, they start writhing around. And five within seconds, they're in total agony, because nobody is seeing them. And I really don't think that's that much different as adults. I think when we're unseen, it is just total agony. We're rendered invisible. And that's what I encounter in my daily life as a reporter. I used to go to the Midwest. I live on the East Coast, but I spent a lot of time in the Midwest. And maybe 10, 15 years ago, once a day, somebody would say, you guys think we're flyover country. In the last five years, I hear that like 10 times a day. And so a lot of just people feel they're invisible. And frankly, that's a little on my profession, the media. When I started as a police reporter in Chicago, we had working class folks in the newsroom. Our reporters, they hadn't gone to college. They were just regular people from Chicago, and they covered crime alongside me. Now, if you go to newsrooms, especially in New York, DC, LA, San Francisco, it's not only everybody went to college, everyone went to the same like 15 elite colleges, and a lot of the same prep schools. So if you're not in this little group, and you look at the national media, and you don't see yourself, it's as if they're telling you your voice doesn't matter. You don't exist. And that's a form of dehumanization that we've allowed to fester in this country. And of course, people are going to lash out. Yeah, I just spent two weeks with really wonderful professionals at NBC preparing for this debate. And at one point, I asked one of my colleagues in this exercise, I don't work for NBC, how many people do you think in this room voted for Trump? And taken aback, they did not answer because the answer is obvious. Nobody. And if if your newsroom is full of 100 % people not only didn't vote for Trump, but actually loathe them, you can't cover the country. It's impossible because you're not seeing the other 50%. And what your book is, I hope the newsroom is distributed as well. We are all about seeing people who have long been marginalized, and that is important. But if you don't see people who are supporting Donald Trump, for whatever reason, you can't cover the news. Let me ask you about this Philip Lewis fellow. I love him, because he finally gave me the courage to teach the do the Dormant Commerce Clause in the 11th Amendment with the confidence that even though my students are terribly bored, they have to know this. Where did you meet Philip Lewis? Because he's talking to teachers. Teachers need to read this book too, if only to be comforted in the fact that every teacher has this experience.
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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Does Christianity Uniquely Lead to God?
"Music Broadcasting the west side of Big Brothers City in the heart of Gridlock County, where preaching with impact is like plowing pavement, people continue to place their hope in unsatisfying things. This is the Frederick Faith Debate. It's brought to us by Cruz Holidays, BMC Insurance, and Putman www .ufmd .com keyword faith. There you find links to podcasts of this show. Well, if you go right now, you won't find a podcast of this show, but if you wait about two days, you'll find a podcast of this show. If you go there right now, you'll find podcasts of shows very much like it. You'll also find the Faith Debate blog. My blog is your blog. Email me, troyskinner at clearchannel .com. Whatever you send me, it could be your favorite pie recipe, whatever. I will post it up there. You can rail against the Democrats, rail against Republicans. I will post it up there. I don't really care as long as it's, you know, if a four -year -old accidentally stumbles upon it that they wouldn't be mortified by a word they'd never seen before. That I, that I will take out. Whenever I hear the phrase podcast, it makes me think of Star Wars and, you know, the, uh, the droids trying to escape in a pod. I just, I can't get it out of my head. So whenever you say it, I think podcasts, and I have this picture in my mind of people plugging in to this pod that is sending these droids away. And the funny thing is, every time I think of the name Jonathan Switzer, I think of a droid. I don't know what. Anyway, he's the senior pastor of Crossroads Valley Chapel. I was going to try to whistle like RTD. You can follow, follow him online, uh, at Switzer, not on Twitter, at Switzer, Jonathan. And let's see, it's the latter part of October. It's not trending yet. I just got to tell you. I think he, based on his current schedule, he will send out one more tweet between now and the end of the year. That's right. So hold your breath. It's coming. And joining us this week again, back for round four of her abuse at the hands of Jonathan Switzer. He's been really nice. It's more like abuse at the hands of me. Our Happy Lutheran, blogging at HappyLutheran .blogspot .com. Dr. Kristen Largan, who is an associate professor of systematic theology, also teaches comparative theology classes at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. And it's been a pleasure having her on the show. And now we're really going to get to the nitty -gritty. Jonathan ended with such a great question, right, about, um, what do we do with the scriptural witness that seems to clearly state that some people are going to be damned? And, um, you, and then, then you asked, I think, what was a broader question about do we not have sort of guidelines in scripture? Guidelines for communicating to people and encouraging them to examine their hearts to see whether or not they're in the truth and in the kingdom. Well, you know, it's so, it's, it's interesting. I mean, again, we, we've talked now multiple times over the course of these weeks about our, um, how our backgrounds come to play a role. And again, because I'm Lutheran, um, and the thing that Lutherans are known, known for most is this really, really high doctrine of sinfulness. And so I, I'm, I'm so, um, I, I always get so uneasy when people start talking about telling others to examine themselves, because I always think, oh, I could, I could spend all my time examining before myself I even try to examine anyone else, because I, I, I know the depth of my own sinfulness and, and my own inability to do right before God or, or come to God and, and, and my sort of desperate need for, for, um, the Spirit to be at work in me. But how would you know to do that if no one had ever told you that you needed to examine yourself or your sinfulness? Nobody ever told me to examine myself. The, the idea didn't tell you to do that? Well, that's later. I, to me, I think, I think that, um, the, what, I mean, I think, right, Paul says, if you, if you don't know the law, how can you, how can you know the gospel? But I think in some ways, if you don't know a gracious God, how can you even understand what you've, what you've done wrong? I mean, so there's a, there's a sense for me that, yeah, right, yeah, right. Clearly his grace came first because he created us. He gave us life. And then we fell and then he gave the law, but, you know. Right. And I think, I think God's grace still comes first. And so, you know, when we talk about this kind of, to me, what always feels like the kind of threatening language of, oh, you better examine yourself. I, I want to say the, the first thing that I want to talk about is the great work of this loving God who, who is, um, because because simply I like to think that the fact that God has shown mercy on me, a sinner undeserving of God's grace. So also will God show mercy on others, sinners unworthy of God's grace. So this is the distinction that I feel like Troy has been making between how he views what you're saying and what I've been trying to do viewing it is that, um, as long as what you're describing has to do with an attitudinal approach to, to presenting the truth in the gospel, I'm with you. But Troy's going the other way and saying, okay, attitude aside, bottom line, do you feel like it's important for us to, you know, in the parable of the talents to recognize that he who has is going to be given more, but he who doesn't have even what he does have is going to be taken away from him, that we hit the negative and in hitting the negative that, that, that we're willing to not just attitudinally encourage people in a positive way towards what's right, but, but to substantially recognize that a big part of the message of the gospel is repent. Yeah. And no, I, I don't, I, that's, I, would you agree that that was Peter's message on Pentecost Sunday? I mean, it's hard to get away from, I feel like, I feel like I'm leading you, you know, it's a loaded question. Clearly that's what he said. One word you would say, you would sum up the Pentecostal, the, the, the message of Pentecost, the birth of the church, you would sum up that in one word with repent.
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Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from GARY GENSLER CALLS ALL CRYPTO SECURITIES AHEAD OF CONGRESS HEARING & SEC RIPPLE XRP APPEAL
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, I want to start with news around scumbag regulator Gary Gensler. Tomorrow, SEC Chair Gary Gensler will be testifying before the U .S. Senate Banking Committee. And there will be two hearings this month that he's going to be appearing at. And tomorrow is the first. At the end of the month, he'll be testifying before the House Financial Services Committee. I think that's the one that's going to have the most fireworks the last time. It certainly did. Gary got a lot of grilling from Patrick McHenry and a whole bunch of other folks. So I can't wait for that one. So we'll see if he gets any pushback tomorrow. But ahead of his testimony tomorrow, he released a letter. And of course, he's reiterating the same old bullshit about how all crypto tokens are securities. And here's one of his quotes. Given this industry's wide ranging noncompliance with the securities laws, it's not surprising that we've seen many problems in these markets. Now here's what Taylor Barr of the Digital Chamber of Commerce had to say regarding those statements from Gary. Without clear rules of the road and notable regulatory gaps, it's not noncompliance. It's navigating uncharted waters. Yeah, I think we've seen this time and time again. Gary continues these false narratives. We know the market does not have clarity. We're seeing the judges and the courts. The judges are also like, what is the SEC calling a security? You can't even say which ones are security and which ones are not right. They're just the SEC is just throwing anything at the wall right now. And Gary continues lying. This is why we have to keep fighting folks. And we have to tweet. We have to use social media to our advantage. We have to make content. We have to contact our representatives. Now, Mike Selig, who is a crypto and a fin regulation lawyer at Wilkie Farr. He tweeted out some items regarding Gensler's letter. Chair Gensler says the vast majority of crypto tokens meet the investment contract tests. Now, former chair Clayton said every ICO is I've seen is a security. This is similar rhetoric, but different meaning. Unlike Clayton, Gensler says tokens themselves are securities. Judge Torres disagreed. So we know the Ripple ruling was certainly important for case law, highlighting Gary's lies and his false narratives. And even goes back to the Howie case where I've interviewed Hester Peirce, SEC commissioner, where she said she's trying to tell the folks there not to focus on the asset, but rather how it's packaged. So in the case of Howie, it wasn't the oranges, right? It wasn't the trees and the orange groves and all of that. It was rather his investment scheme, because if it was the fruit and the trees, that means every orange tree today is a security. All the oranges in the supermarket and that you have at your house is a security, which is nonsense, obviously, right? Because these tokens, folks, they exist on decentralized blockchains and they are distributed globally. They're outside the United States as well. Right. And you can't get the same rights as stocks. If you hold a token, you don't have voting rights in the sense of having equity and shares of the company and things like that. So it's not a security, but rather how it's packaged. That's the key. That's the differentiator. But Gary Gensler continues his lies. So we got to fight. Let's see how this hearing goes tomorrow. And if he gets pushed any type of pushback, I'm hearing a lot of Democrats and as well as Republicans, of course, are not happy with Gary with how he's doing things with the crypto market. Obviously, him taking a big loss with Grayscale and Ripple is significant. And I hope Coinbase mops the floor with this clown Gensler. And then I hope he gets he gets forced to resign. Now, the SEC is, of course, trying to file an appeal with the Ripple ruling. And here, attorney Frederick Foley shared some thoughts about that. He said, XRP community, SEC made decent arguments and Ripple countered them. Well, certifying the appeal is a discretionary standard. Judge Torres can do whatever she wants if she determines the three statutory conditions are met and there is enough wiggle room for her to certify, he says. But as I predicted earlier, I still say the likely outcome is she does not certified mainly because of the prejudice to the humans involved. Brad Garlinghouse and Chris Larson, without the claims against them, I would have to say 100 percent chance she certifies. Lastly, this case has a political element. So if that is a factor for Judge Torres, I don't think it is, but it's not without reason to think the opposite. She can avoid that issue by certifying and putting the onus on the second circuit as the court can simply deny the request. So we'll see. I don't think the SEC has any chance here. You know, once again, they can go ahead and file the appeal. Nothing wrong with that. But will they actually get it through and get something done? I don't think so. I think Gary Gensler has lost the narrative. Optics look very bad for him. And I can't wait to see what the ruling will be with the Coinbase situation. And I think another loss will be really bad for Gary Gensler. Now, a quick word from our sponsor, and that is Uphold, which makes crypto investing easy. I've been using Uphold since 2018, so I can certainly vouch for this platform. They have 10 plus million users, 250 plus crypto currencies, and they're available in 150 countries. You can also trade precious metals and equities on this platform, as well as 37 national currencies. You can swap between different currencies with precious metals and crypto currencies. It's pretty unique. So if you'd like to learn more about Uphold, please visit the link in the description. All right, folks. Now, with Ripple acquiring Fortress, which is the custodian, and this was a big move by Ripple, of course. Well, some details are coming out that Swan Bitcoin's custodian was Fortress and that Fortress was hacked, apparently. And some customer funds were lost and Ripple in their acquisition had to step in to cover the customer losses. This is wild. Now, you may say, who cares? Well, Swan Bitcoin is run by a bunch of Bitcoin maxis. Max Kaiser supports it. The other guy, Corey, I forgot his last name, but these guys are toxic. I mean, they're going around calling everything a shitcoin. They're attacking other coins. They're always, you know, just doing nonsense. It's like their M .O., right? That's the persona they've taken over. But a lot of people recognize it. They're just just toxic, man. Just disgusting people. And lo and behold, the irony, folks, that Ripple came and bailed them out. Right. And apparently this was confirmed because Mike Belshi, who was who is the CEO of BitGo, who I've had on the podcast many times, he confirmed some of this and that the folks at Fortress Trust have not been clear about the lost funds and things that have been happening. And it's spilling over to BitGo because BitGo's clients are calling and saying, hey, what's going on here? Right. What's with the breach and all that jazz? So it's a mess right now. So it's pretty incredible that these Bitcoin maxis got bailed out by Ripple.
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A highlight from Evangelism Boundaries and Styles
"Music Broadcasting the police state that is Frederick City and the gridlock that is Frederick County in the socialist state of Maryland just outside the capital of the former republic of the United States of America where religious freedom is just a wistful memory. This is the Frederick Faith Debate on Frederick News Radio 930 WFMD brought to us by Putman Plumbing and Heating. How can we make you smile? Visit the Frederick Faith Debate online at wfmd .com keyword faith. Email me troyskinner at clearchannel .com and why would you want to do that? Because when you email me at troyskinner at clearchannel .com I take what you email me and I post it on the faith debate page because my blog is your blog. Sounds really nice and generous when I put it that way right? It's like the laziest way ever to do a blog. Nine blog post postings a day Monday through Friday 45 blog postings a week you should check it out go there right now wfmd .com keyword faith. On the show this week Jonathan Switzer senior pastor at Crossroads Valley Chapel and back again from last week we didn't scare him away we tried our best but he's back again Tom Weil who's pastor at Brunswick First Church of God. Last week we were talking about evangelism uh when it's appropriate or how it's appropriate to to approach those we we think might be lost uh one of the things we talked about was finding a an area of commonality uh seeing if maybe an innocent question you see the wearing a cross or a t -shirt or something you can say hey are you a Christian well this week we're going to transition a little bit from interfacing with people that we're not sure if they're Christian or not to interfacing with people we know for sure are Christian. So can I share a story before we do that? Oh story time with Jonathan.
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"frederick" Discussed on The Garden Question
"In today's gardening world, what would you tell us to do? Something that it never occurred to me to say in my youth, in my naivete. I looked at gardens and how they're designed as something that's to be considered permanent. That urban horticulture could be permanent infrastructure if it was properly designed. What I have been reading is the attempt from several social influencers, garden influencers, who are now decrying the use of certain species of long live trees just because they cannot be easily cut down. My advice to any garden designer, landscape gardener, or landscape architecture is to plant legacy trees for just the opposite effect because we know trees can provide shade for descendants. If we do the right thing and plant those trees that we know husband horticulture, providing all of the appropriate environments for pollinators and birds and animals, creating the canopy of major cities, those trees that develop elaborate and long lived root systems, the historically great trees that we have used in this country out of our deciduous forests is what should come out of our garden development. And public horticulture needs to think in the long term of what can provide sanctuary for our generations. What's your advice for today's landscape architect or garden designer? It's a very simple answer to what becomes a very complex question. Let us think not for present delight, nor for present use alone. Let us not think in terms of the negative, but let us seek such work as our descendants will thank us for. Let us think, all of us that work in ornamental and public horticulture, let us think that a time is to come when all men and women and children will say, see this, this our forebearers did for us. That is our outstanding challenge for anything we touch and anything we choose to call an improvement of nature. Tell us how people may connect with you. I can be connected with on most social media platforms. You can look for me as Kirk R. Brown or shop for me as Frederick Law Olmsted or John Bartram. And I will respond to most nudges and my phone is available on many sites. This has been Episode 124 Sculpturing Nature, the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted with Kirk R. Brown interpreted an encore presentation and remix of Episode 63. Thank you, Kirk. You're awesome. The goal is that every episode is valuable and well worth your time. Please generously share the Garden Question podcast with your friends, relatives, and neighbors. Check out our website, thegardenquestion.com for links, resources, and where you can listen to every episode again and again. You will not want to miss a weekly episode, so please subscribe to the Garden Question podcast with Craig McManus on your favorite Listening Out. Keep on designing, building, and growing a smarter garden that works.
The Garden Question
"frederick" Discussed on The Garden Question
"My brother died young, but he had married and had three children, the eldest of which, John Olmsted, was my nephew. At the time, my brother had written and charged me with taking care of his wife, Mary, and the kids. As these things do generally happen, we fell in love and managed a life aside. I married my brother's widow and adopted his three children. John became the outstanding force of management in the office in Brookline when we established our headquarters there. He was a manager of excellent and national renown. He could take very complex subjects and reduce them to simple terms. One of his systems was done for Seattle, and he was in charge of that from almost the inception My youngest then natural born son was Frederick Jr. They call him Rick. Well, as I was feeling less capable after the World's Fair, Rick legally changed his name to Frederick Law Olmsted. So there was always someone of that name in the office signing checks up until almost the very end of the partnership. The children represented who we were as a family, and I think they represented this nation well in regard to how much they considered the importance of democracy in the access to public urban horticulture. They were great in their day and way.
The Garden Question
"frederick" Discussed on The Garden Question
"The Garden Question is a podcast for people that love designing, building, and growing smarter gardens that work. Listen in as we talk with successful garden designers, builders, and growers, discovering their stories along with how they think, work, and grow. This is your next step in creating a beautiful, year-round, environmentally connected, low-maintenance, and healthy, thriving outdoor space. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an expert, there will always be something inspiring when you listen to The Garden Question podcast. Hello, I'm your host, Craig McManus. It's been over 200 years since he was born. People still absorb his parks and public gardens in more than 5,000 communities across the North American continent. The goal is to give the common man in this new world the same opportunities to experience creation as any king in his private preserve in the Old World. Frederick Law Olmsted is prevalently pronounced the father of American landscape architecture. In this episode, Kurt R. Brown interprets Frederick Law Olmsted. Kurt is a member of the International Garden Communicators Hall of Fame. He is a green achiever being recognized with many industrial awards. He represented Joanne Kostecki Garden Design as a leader in the design bill industry. At America's oldest garden in Charleston, South Carolina, he worked as national outreach coordinator. He is the past president of GardenCom. In the U.S. and Canada, he's delivered hundreds of keynote addresses, guest lectures, teaching symposia, and certified instruction over the past quarter of a century. He's also known to interpret historic horticulturalists and international dignitaries as John Bartram, Frederick Law Olmsted, among many others. He still finds time to cultivate his own private display garden. Join him now as he unveils his views of Olmsted. This is Episode 124, Sculpturing Nature. The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted with Kurt R. Brown Interpreting, an encore presentation and remix of Episode 63. Mr. Olmsted, would you take us back to when you were 36 years old and tell us what was your most valuable mistake up to that point? I sometimes have problems remembering what happened yesterday. Remembering what happened when I was 36 takes me to a point in time where I felt that I would never wake up, that somehow whatever hope I had of being properly engaged in an adult employment was never going to occur. However, it was at a time when seemingly everything in the world that I had touched or attempted had turned to dross. With that, when you are at the bottom, looking up from the bottom of that big black pit that you feel yourselves in, God smiles sometimes. And when he smiles, he puts in front of you an opportunity that unless you'd been in that pit of despair, you wouldn't think was a positive. I went over the brink of bankruptcy with a publishing company that my father had financed to put me on my feet in the world of communicating, largely garden communicating. But in that day, when publishers have cash in the drawer and decide that it's better in their pockets and they skip town, I was left holding an empty bag. When my sanity was at risk, there were a group of friends, Dutch elders from the state of New York, who looked at me in my circumstance and they said, without much thinking about it, we have a job for you, sir. And this was from Washington Irving, whom you might have heard, James Hamilton, the Cooper Hewitt later, and David Dudley Field, among many, many others, they said in response to my question, what is this job all about? They said, we believe that from your practical training as an agriculturist, from all of your horticultural writings, from your talents and from your obvious character, I took them at their word on that, we believe you eminently qualified for the duties of the Office of Superintendent of the capital T, the Central Park of New York. They wanted me to be a crew leader of one of the largest public works projects that had been undertaken since the construction of the pyramids. They thought by giving me this job, it would put my feet under my own table and allow me to support the family that I had inherited and adopted after my brother's death. So you see, this is a laugh because being a construction foreman on a landscape project the size of Central Park allowed me into other rooms and gave me the ability to meet other people, most notably among them, Calvert Vox. Of course, from that participation, from that connection, from that wonderful start at 36, climbing out of the black pit and going on into the greater international world of garden design. That's how you find me, sir. From that point till now, you have to consider all of the other doors that opened, designing the country's first great urban and public park. It was a democratization of space. That's the most important aspect that we were driving. All of the big parks of the old world were private preserves, were aristocratic in their founding or country homes of the elite and money. They were not open to the general public. Here we were designing a space, an urban space of green that would allow people at all levels of income to rub elbows and participate in a great and refreshing space. Out of that, the other things that came to my table were the obvious connections of making plans for residential subdivisions. I was ultimately asked to design a world's fair. And in that regard, I was one of the few who designed a fair that actually made money. Mostly the cities in which the Olmsted partnership worked were green belts. It wasn't just one isolated urban jewel. They were a necklace. They were a green necklace surrounding all of the major cities in which we did work, involving parkways and park sides with garden views. And with all of that, the infrastructure that necessarily came along with the design was an increasing awareness of public health and sanitation. I was also involved at the beginning of the American Red Cross with standardizing field operations, with organizing national outreach and coordination, and with putting women in nursing wards. I was also there at the beginning in trying to inventory the natural resources of Yosemite, and that began the National Parks Movement. I also encouraged managed forestry. I was the first person here in this country to hire a forester to help develop plans for management of 137,000 acres in Biltmore, not less. Governor Pinchot, as he later came to be known, was the first man that held the post at the National Center where he managed the national parks and forests. I was always involved in garden communication. I was a syndicated New York Times columnist. I was an abolitionist. I believe strongly in the development of cemetery arboretum where families could mourn the death of their loved ones. And I was the first one to be recognized for the design implementation and successful development of riparian restoration using early sustainable practices, because overarching all of these individual jobs, I believe that environmental health was also humanities welfare. Eventually, many of the things that we did for the first time or did for all of those who came later to ask us to repeat our success, eventually we codified most of the things that we were doing, and we were there at the beginning writing a syllabus for the American Society of Landscape Architects when Harvard graduated its first class. That's the beginning. And through it, we've tried to reach a point that you can look back and decide whether what we do, whether creating public parks, whether recognizing national parks, whether doing things as a green infrastructural implementation, whether that is garden design, whether it is landscape design or whether it is landscape architecture. I have certainly left the responsibility of that to all of the generations that came since the implementation of Central Park of New York. So let's look at the Central Park of New York. Where you started to turn around was when you got the job as superintendent. How did you make the jump from superintendent to being credited as the designer and builder of Central Park? I would never accept that title. I was mentored by a man far greater than I. His name was Andrew Jackson Downing, and he lived upstate New York. The concept of Central Park and the concept of public urban horticulture was his. He was the first man here in this country to successfully write that there was a model to be offered and followed in the development of landscape practices. He wrote and published a book in 1841 called A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. It was his idea in the 1840s what he called the picturesque landscape has great advantage for the common man. The raw materials of grass, water, and woods are at once appropriated with so much effect and so little art in the picturesque mode, and the charm is so great. You'll recall that 200 years ago I was born. It was also the same year that Napoleon died. There was a great turning where people decided it was no longer appropriate to design landscapes in the French style. The formality of trimmed hedges and topiaries and the development of boxed and hothouse grown examples of tropical horticulture. What they wanted was a natural or romantic view of the world. Downing's response to that was his development of the picturesque here in North America. So while the international turned on what was their term called romanticism, Downing's belief was that it needed to be picturesque. He brought a man from England who was just spectacular with the development of line and architectural standards. His name was Calvert Vaux. So we had Calvert Vaux doing all of the housing plans for Downing's models. Downing began a magazine called The Horticulturist where he promoted all of the values of horticulture and agriculture, how to design, creating a design for living. He encouraged all of us to plant spacious parks in our cities and unclose their gates as wide as the gates of mourning to the whole people. I was a very small part of the initial concept when they were looking for the construction foreman. Downing had been killed in a steamboat accident on the Hudson River. While they were searching for the plan, they had more than 30 proposals submitted for what Central Park was to become. Calvert Vaux had a concept and he asked me if I would join him in its presentation to the committee. My thought was that a proper city park should provide escape from the city. We solved all of the inherent problems of the design so that nature of the space would be one of unending vistas of green and the lawns would seem to go on forever. With Vaux asking me to be a partner, at that low point in my life, my answer was an unqualified sir, this partnership is on. We called our design and our proposal Greensward. I would still think of it with that name. Of course, everyone else has just taken it to heart and made it Central Park. I was 36 years old. I had a neighbor in Hartford as I was growing up and then on the speaking circuit in later years and Mark Twain, you might know him as Samuel Longhorns Clemens, said that age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. What were some of the challenges in the implementation of the Central Park design? The money was coming from Albany and the old Dutch money that still remained somewhat in the Tammany Hall organization of downtown New York politics would get their hands on the money before it would feed through to enrich, encourage and grow the project. The old Dutch burghers wanted an honest man as the paymaster. And so at the end of those long days, I was the man handing money to the day workers with cash on the barrelhead, paying them for moving the hundreds and hundreds and millions of cubic yards of soil that was transported to do those effortless looking hills and dales and rambles that became Central Park. The park itself is a democratic development of the highest significance. We can never, never, ever forget that public urban horticulture is that. It is the extreme expression of democracy. And simply put, we were looking at the three grand elements of Downing's definition of picturesque or pastoral landscape. Those three elements remain the same today as they were then. The symphony of grass, water and woods joined together with many, many artificial tricks of the trade into one uncommon space. At Central Park, we also added what would be in our concept the only sculptural element that was to be included in the final design. That was the Bethesda Fountain. With Bethesda, we wanted it to be similar to the quote from the New Testament, John chapter 5, verse 4, for an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made well of whatever disease he had. This becoming a place of union for all of those tired and poor of the city who would otherwise not have a green space with good public water. It became that, certainly, after the Civil War and even up until these days when the symbol of the fountain, that angel of the waters that was given to the first woman who ever won a sculptural commission in the city of New York later to become angels in America. Through all of this, that symbol of health and well-being has been guarded through all of its artistic progress. What other, as you referred to them as, tricks in the landscape design were implemented in the park? There were requirements, as most things are. They had to have cross streets, but we didn't want to interrupt the view of green. We sunk the roads, and it was unique in its concept because all of those cross streets that were mandated in the design brief were not seen once you were at grade or at the park level, so that all of the sheep's meadow and the grand lawns of Central Park were seemingly undivided and the cars would travel underneath that layer. The other thing was fresh water. The 800 and some odd acres of Central Park had to include what was an existing reservoir. The walk around the reservoir had to be included in the acreage, and to do that, we made the north part of the park into what I called a ramble. If you take the word ramble, it puts me back into my childhood. I had rides with my father and mother in the woods and fields. In those days, we were in search of the, well, the picturesque. Any man then who sees things differently than the mass of ordinary men is classified as one who has a defect of the eye and a defect of the brain. Who would think that you could move mountains to create a distant view while the cross-street thoroughfares of a major urban environment would traffic unwitnessed with the calm and peace of nature around you? In later years, it gave the common man access to a broader world. In the early days, when the park first opened, what we discovered is that entrepreneurs of the city would get a chance to meet and greet people who were not of or in their class, and everyone came together on the lake to ice skate. That had never been accomplished in an urban environment before, where the lowest and the highest achieved self-standing stature over a pair of ice skates. What other ways did you incorporate the blending of the classes? There were several types of road. There were access roads for tradesmen, and then there were the carriage trade highways that would tour the park and allowed for another whole type of merchant in the hiring of horse-drawn vehicles that are still there, conveying tourists into and around the park today because of the way the layout was designed. We also included space for a zoo and for ornamental horticulture in the display of flowers. It also gave space for the Metropolitan Museum, and then as you'll see over all these years, many, many other opportunities for people to regard themselves highly by installing other busts and portraiture. There's Cleopatra's Needle, which was that large obelisk that came from Egypt that has its own following up above the museum. It's all part and parcel of creating the ambiance of nature in an artificial way. You had some experiences of your own in a walking tour in England. How did those influence your view of design, and how did you take those and implement them in the park? The only difference is that in England, what we were looking at in the assortment of grass, water, and woods was that most of the developed areas were done for members of the aristocracy. They were country homes at the time. Previous generation, they were landscapes designed and achieved by Lancelot. They called him Capability Brown. Those assortments of grass, water, and woods were no different in concept, really, for the public parks that we were designing. The only difference is that in public funded projects, they had access for people of all social classes. There was no admission, no gate. I've heard it said you become who you hang out with. Tell us about some of the people that you have surrounded yourself with.
The Garden Question
A highlight from 124 - Sculpting Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted - Kirk R. Brown
"The Garden Question is a podcast for people that love designing, building, and growing smarter gardens that work. Listen in as we talk with successful garden designers, builders, and growers, discovering their stories along with how they think, work, and grow. This is your next step in creating a beautiful, year -round, environmentally connected, low -maintenance, and healthy, thriving outdoor space. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an expert, there will always be something inspiring when you listen to The Garden Question podcast. Hello, I'm your host, Craig McManus. It's been over 200 years since he was born. People still absorb his parks and public gardens in more than 5 ,000 communities across the North American continent. The goal is to give the common man in this new world the same opportunities to experience creation as any king in his private preserve in the Old World. Frederick Law Olmsted is prevalently pronounced the father of American landscape architecture. In this episode, Kurt R. Brown interprets Frederick Law Olmsted. Kurt is a member of the International Garden Communicators Hall of Fame. He is a green achiever being recognized with many industrial awards. He represented Joanne Kostecki Garden Design as a leader in the design bill industry. At America's oldest garden in Charleston, South Carolina, he worked as national outreach coordinator. He is the past president of GardenCom. In the U .S. and Canada, he's delivered hundreds of keynote addresses, guest lectures, teaching symposia, and certified instruction over the past quarter of a century. He's also known to interpret historic horticulturalists and international dignitaries as John Bartram, Frederick Law Olmsted, among many others. He still finds time to cultivate his own private display garden. Join him now as he unveils his views of Olmsted. This is Episode 124, Sculpturing Nature. The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted with Kurt R. Brown Interpreting, an encore presentation and remix of Episode 63. Mr. Olmsted, would you take us back to when you were 36 years old and tell us what was your most valuable mistake up to that point? I sometimes have problems remembering what happened yesterday. Remembering what happened when I was 36 takes me to a point in time where I felt that I would never wake up, that somehow whatever hope I had of being properly engaged in an adult employment was never going to occur. However, it was at a time when seemingly everything in the world that I had touched or attempted had turned to dross. With that, when you are at the bottom, looking up from the bottom of that big black pit that you feel yourselves in, God smiles sometimes. And when he smiles, he puts in front of you an opportunity that unless you'd been in that pit of despair, you wouldn't think was a positive. I went over the brink of bankruptcy with a publishing company that my father had financed to put me on my feet in the world of communicating, largely garden communicating. But in that day, when publishers have cash in the drawer and decide that it's better in their pockets and they skip town, I was left holding an empty bag. When my sanity was at risk, there were a group of friends, Dutch elders from the state of New York, who looked at me in my circumstance and they said, without much thinking about it, we have a job for you, sir. And this was from Washington Irving, whom you might have heard, James Hamilton, the Cooper Hewitt later, and David Dudley Field, among many, many others, they said in response to my question, what is this job all about? They said, we believe that from your practical training as an agriculturist, from all of your horticultural writings, from your talents and from your obvious character, I took them at their word on that, we believe you eminently qualified for the duties of the Office of Superintendent of the capital T, the Central Park of New York. They wanted me to be a crew leader of one of the largest public works projects that had been undertaken since the construction of the pyramids. They thought by giving me this job, it would put my feet under my own table and allow me to support the family that I had inherited and adopted after my brother's death. So you see, this is a laugh because being a construction foreman on a landscape project the size of Central Park allowed me into other rooms and gave me the ability to meet other people, most notably among them, Calvert Vox. Of course, from that participation, from that connection, from that wonderful start at 36, climbing out of the black pit and going on into the greater international world of garden design. That's how you find me, sir. From that point till now, you have to consider all of the other doors that opened, designing the country's first great urban and public park. It was a democratization of space. That's the most important aspect that we were driving. All of the big parks of the old world were private preserves, were aristocratic in their founding or country homes of the elite and money. They were not open to the general public. Here we were designing a space, an urban space of green that would allow people at all levels of income to rub elbows and participate in a great and refreshing space. Out of that, the other things that came to my table were the obvious connections of making plans for residential subdivisions. I was ultimately asked to design a world's fair. And in that regard, I was one of the few who designed a fair that actually made money. Mostly the cities in which the Olmsted partnership worked were green belts. It wasn't just one isolated urban jewel. They were a necklace. They were a green necklace surrounding all of the major cities in which we did work, involving and parkways park sides with garden views. And with all of that, the infrastructure that necessarily came along with the design was an increasing awareness of public health and sanitation. I was also involved at the beginning of the American Red Cross with standardizing field operations, with organizing national outreach and coordination, and with putting women in nursing wards. I was also there at the beginning in trying to inventory the natural resources of Yosemite, and that began the National Parks Movement. I also encouraged managed forestry. I was the first person here in this country to hire a forester to help develop plans for management of 137 ,000 acres in Biltmore, not less. Governor Pinchot, as he later came to be known, was the first man that held the post at the National Center where he managed the national parks and forests. I was always involved in garden communication. I was a syndicated New York Times columnist. I was an abolitionist. I believe strongly in the development of cemetery arboretum where families could mourn the death of their loved ones. And I was the first one to be recognized for the design implementation and successful development of riparian restoration using early sustainable practices, because overarching all of these individual jobs, I believe that environmental health was also humanities welfare. Eventually, many of the things that we did for the first time or did for all of those who came later to ask us to repeat our success, eventually we codified most of the things that we were doing, and we were there at the beginning writing a syllabus for the American Society of Landscape Architects when Harvard graduated its first class. That's the beginning. And through it, we've tried to reach a point that you can look back and decide whether what we do, whether creating public parks, whether recognizing national parks, whether doing things as a green infrastructural implementation, whether that is garden design, whether it is landscape design or whether it is landscape architecture. I have certainly left the responsibility of that to all of the generations that came since the implementation of Central Park of New York. So let's look at the Central Park of New York. Where you started to turn around was when you got the job as superintendent. How did you make the jump from superintendent to being credited as the designer and builder of Central Park? I would never accept that title. I was mentored by a man far greater than I. His name was Andrew Jackson Downing, and he lived upstate New York. The concept of Central Park and the concept of public urban horticulture was his. He was the first man here in this country to successfully write that there was a model to be offered and followed in the development of landscape practices. He wrote and published a book in 1841 called A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. It was his idea in the 1840s what he called the picturesque landscape has great advantage for the common man. The raw materials of grass, water, and woods are at once appropriated with so much effect and so little art in the picturesque mode, and the charm is so great. You'll recall that 200 years ago I was born. It was also the same year that Napoleon died. There was a great turning where people decided it was no longer appropriate to design landscapes in the French style. The formality of trimmed hedges and topiaries and the development of boxed and hothouse grown examples of tropical horticulture. What they wanted was a natural or romantic view of the world. Downing's response to that was his development of the picturesque here in North America. So while the international turned on what was their term called romanticism, Downing's belief was that it needed to be picturesque. He brought a man from England who was just spectacular with the development of line and architectural standards. His name was Calvert Vaux. So we had Calvert Vaux doing all of the housing plans for Downing's models. Downing began a magazine called The Horticulturist where he promoted all of the values of horticulture and agriculture, how to design, creating a design for living. He encouraged all of us to plant spacious parks in our cities and unclose their gates as wide as the gates of mourning to the whole people. I was a very small part of the initial concept when they were looking for the construction foreman. Downing had been killed in a steamboat accident on the Hudson River. While they were searching for the plan, they had more than 30 proposals submitted for what Central Park was to become. Calvert Vaux had a concept and he asked me if I would join him in its presentation to the committee. My thought was that a proper city park should provide escape from the city. We solved all of the inherent problems of the design so that nature of the space would be one of unending vistas of green and the lawns would seem to go on forever. With Vaux asking me to be a partner, at that low point in my life, my answer was an unqualified sir, this partnership is on. We called our design and our proposal Greensward. I would still think of it with that name. Of course, everyone else has just taken it to heart and made it Central Park. I was 36 years old. I had a neighbor in Hartford as I was growing up and then on the speaking circuit in later years and Mark Twain, you might know him as Samuel Longhorns Clemens, said that age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. What were some of the challenges in the implementation of the Central Park design? The money was coming from Albany and the old Dutch money that still remained somewhat in the Tammany Hall organization of downtown New York politics would get their hands on the money before it would feed through to enrich, encourage and grow the project. The old Dutch burghers wanted an honest man as the paymaster. And so at the end of those long days, I was the man handing money to the day workers with cash on the barrelhead, paying them for moving the hundreds and hundreds and millions of cubic yards of soil that was transported to do those effortless looking hills and dales and rambles that became Central Park. The park itself is a democratic development of the highest significance. We can never, never, ever forget that public urban horticulture is that. It is the extreme expression of democracy. And simply put, we were looking at the three grand elements of Downing's definition of picturesque or pastoral landscape. Those three elements remain the same today as they were then. The symphony of grass, water and woods joined together with many, many artificial tricks of the trade into one uncommon space. At Central Park, we also added what would be in our concept the only sculptural element that was to be included in the final design. That was the Bethesda Fountain. With Bethesda, we wanted it to be similar to the quote from the New Testament, John chapter 5, verse 4, for an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made well of whatever disease he had. This becoming a place of union for all of those tired and poor of the city who would otherwise not have a green space with good public water. It became that, certainly, after the Civil War and even up until these days when the symbol of the fountain, that angel of the waters that was given to the first woman who ever won a sculptural commission in the city of New York later to become angels in America. Through all of this, that symbol of health and well -being has been guarded through all of its artistic progress. What other, as you referred to them as, tricks in the landscape design were implemented in the park? There were requirements, as most things are. They had to have cross streets, but we didn't want to interrupt the view of green. We sunk the roads, and it was unique in its concept because all of those cross streets that were mandated in the design brief were not seen once you were at grade or at the park level, so that all of the sheep's meadow and the grand lawns of Central Park were seemingly undivided and the cars would travel underneath that layer. The other thing was fresh water. The 800 and some odd acres of Central Park had to include what was an existing reservoir. The walk around the reservoir had to be included in the acreage, and to do that, we made the north part of the park into what I called a ramble. If you take the word ramble, it puts me back into my childhood. I had rides with my father and mother in the woods and fields. In those days, we were in search of the, well, the picturesque. Any man then who sees things differently than the mass of ordinary men is classified as one who has a defect of the eye and a defect of the brain. Who would think that you could move mountains to create a distant view while the cross -street thoroughfares of a major urban environment would traffic unwitnessed with the calm and peace of nature around you? In later years, it gave the common man access to a broader world. In the early days, when the park first opened, what we discovered is that entrepreneurs of the city would get a chance to meet and greet people who were not of or in their class, and everyone came together on the lake to ice skate. That had never been accomplished in an urban environment before, where the lowest and the highest achieved self -standing stature over a pair of ice skates. What other ways did you incorporate the blending of the classes? There were several types of road. There were access roads for tradesmen, and then there were the carriage trade highways that would tour the park and allowed for another whole type of merchant in the hiring of horse -drawn vehicles that are still there, conveying tourists into and around the park today because of the way the layout was designed. We also included space for a zoo and for ornamental horticulture in the display of flowers. It also gave space for the Metropolitan Museum, and then as you'll see over all these years, many, many other opportunities for people to regard themselves highly by installing other busts and portraiture. There's Cleopatra's Needle, which was that large obelisk that came from Egypt that has its own following up above the museum. It's all part and parcel of creating the ambiance of nature in an artificial way. You had some experiences of your own in a walking tour in England. How did those influence your view of design, and how did you take those and implement them in the park? The only difference is that in England, what we were looking at in the assortment of grass, water, and woods was that most of the developed areas were done for members of the aristocracy. They were country homes at the time. Previous generation, they were landscapes designed and achieved by Lancelot. They called him Capability Brown. Those assortments of grass, water, and woods were no different in concept, really, for the public parks that we were designing. The only difference is that in public funded projects, they had access for people of all social classes. There was no admission, no gate. I've heard it said you become who you hang out with. Tell us about some of the people that you have surrounded yourself with.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dan Bongino: Don't Get Cocky & No More Sitting on the Sidelines
"Oatmeal brains in the White House and no I'm not I'm not gonna get cocky like we did last time in the midterms remember the midterms it's gonna be a landslide man you know what I got in over my over my head on that one too I really thought that I thought there's no way you know what I said that before I thought there was no way Obama could win re -election even though we had Mitt Romney as a candidate I thought to myself not a chance no way until it I say that as a call to action no more sitting on the sidelines as I said to you in the last segment I understand there's cheating in I was a victim of it I ran for Congress in a district where I lost by 1 percent of the vote one percent I think it was a couple thousand votes that was it at a hundreds of thousands cast and I lost in an election for Congress were 13 ,000 people in Frederick City, Maryland who had voted in that election and declared on a jury duty form that they weren't citizens I get it I don't need you to tell me how awful it is I experienced it myself
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat 07.12.23
"When you're drinking a frozen beverage from McDonald's, your brain may not like how refreshingly cold it is. But the rest of your body? Oh, yes. It's gonna relish every moment of it. Because there are drinks. Then there are drinks from McDonald's. Get all the chill you need for just $1 .69. From any size frozen drink, like a frozen Fanta Blue Raspberry, to a new ice cold lemonade. Prices and participation may vary. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Here's another one we could use most days in the news. 1967 Aretha, Queen of Soul, Chain of Fools. Mike has requested an Aretha Franklin record. I'll exceed any such request for Aretha. But I turn to you, Mike, and I ask, what's that about? Well, first of all, let's pull the curtain back. And everyone has to understand what a major disruption it is for me to interrupt your playlist. Because your playlist is thought out weeks and months in advance. Mark, you have to know how this works. I mean, most of us sit in a studio, and we have people who play bumper music and play elements. Not Mark. Mark plays it all himself, and it's very important to him. And he's got a great sense of pride behind it. So I knew that earlier, when I said, Mark, can you play an Aretha Franklin hit for our segment, it was lively. Well, listen, I've got to tell you, you waylaid a plan that I had to celebrate the birthday of a backup drummer for a band I enjoyed in 1973. So I'll have you know, this better be good. See, so there you go. I mean, that's my point exactly. Because you wanted to do the backup drummer of somebody nobody ever heard of in 1973. I wanted Aretha Franklin. Because there's the most fascinating story about Aretha Franklin and her will. You know, she passed away a few years ago. She died in 2018. She has four sons, and they're all fighting over her estate. And the story about finding the handwritten will inside the sofa cushion of her home, honest to goodness, which this week was confirmed as legitimate. She had a handwritten will that a niece found tucked inside a sofa cushion. Now I have some personal experience with Aretha Franklin, and I kind of know why this is probably true. Because she was very, shall we say, old school when it came to things like money and wills. Did you tell me that she could have a gig that paid her $30 ,000 in 1964 something, and she would insist on it in a briefcase filled with cash or something? Not in 64. Oh, no, this was in the 90s when I did a show. I had an appearance at a station in Frederick, Maryland. And at the theater that I appeared in, it was a radio station event, the week before, Aretha had performed. And the manager of the theater, they were all still buzzing about what her routine is, and here's her routine. She had it, they paid her like 30 grand. She wanted big bills in a bag. They give her the bag, she puts the money in her purse, and she wouldn't go on until the cash was delivered to her dressing room before the concert. Now, no money, no performance. The Queen of Soul said, I ain't going out and I ain't performing without the money. They give her the money, she puts the money, and that's a lot of money, put it in her oversized purse that she proceeds to carry out on stage with her. What she's got at the piano and by the band when she's performing, then as soon as the thing was over, her only requirement, the limousine, was to take her straight to Atlantic City. She didn't fly anywhere, she was afraid of flying. She would take the bag of cash and she would go gamble away at Atlantic City from Frederick, Maryland. That was in her contract. I love her even more. Oh, I adore her. The legacy grows even more. Pay me new cash and I'll take the money on stage. So there are a couple of ding, ding, ding. Handwritten will always makes me instantly go into deep hypnosis. How in the world do we have handwriting? Anybody could have said, hey, let's make us a will where Aretha leaves us everything. How do you validate something like that? They did. A jury took about an hour to deliberate and they absolutely confirmed. And there were multiple handwritten. And you've got to see the will. They're online.
Mark Levin
Today, Democrats Do Not Believe in Frederick Douglass or MLK Jr.
"Invalidate a mandating law racial segregation on train cars. He said our Constitution's colorblind. Excuse me. The law regards man as man. It takes no account of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. This brief for the plaintiffs and landmark Brown versus Board of Education Thurgood Marshall argued distinctions based upon race or color alone are the epitome of arbitrariness and capriciousness constitutionally impermissive under our system of government. He said three score and seven years after came to the most resounding statement of all when the Reverend Martin Luther King under Jr. the shadow stood of Abraham Lincoln and immortalized the moral vision of the civil rights movement by declaring I have a dream that my four little children one day live in a nation where they will be judged by the color of their not be judged excuse me where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. The Democrat Party believes in none of this. Today, civil rights Marxism again as I call it preaches and demands the opposite. For example, Kennedy has declared the only remedy to racist discrimination is anti racist discrimination. They're going after Asians. Did Asians own slaves in America in the 1840s and 50s? I don't believe so. How ridiculous. The only remedy to present discrimination, he says, is future discrimination. These are the Marxists. That's the demand for equity. The movement has come up with a new term colorblindness. for condemning You want to hear this one? Colorblind racism. Did you know that's a new phrase? Now, when you get the Party Democrat hates
WTOP
"frederick" Discussed on WTOP
"Frederick maryland this midnight hour friday morning june 23rd 64 and holding in our nation's capital in the minutes ahead this half half hour on wtlp friday the next kennedy center honors includes a pioneering female rapper and the greatest oscar's host i'm jason frailey wtlp at 12 21 hey joe i thought you were retired living on a fixed income is tough so here i am an essential worker i know i i mean food prices are going up every day thank goodness for benefits checkup dot org benefits benefits what benefits checkup dot org it's a free website where people over 60 can find help to pay for food medicine even utilities i got 1200 a year in benefits maybe it can help you the following is a public service announcement for our soldiers fighting overseas in public safety it can be tough to stay focused when they know their families may be struggling eagle swatch wants to help lighten the load and you can help by donating a gift card of any amount we'll make sure they go to military and public safety families who are in need please mail your gift cards or donations under lawyer's road number 256 biena virginia 22183 or go to eagleswatchfoundation .org and on click the gift cards for the home front lane good friday morning june 23rd welcome in 12 22 on the tlp glad you're with us this friday when there's not enough coffee in all of washington to get you going you've got john and michelle mornings on wtop news school day it was a popular program that taught some area high school students the value of that dollar and actually
AP News Radio
Tkachuk ends 6th-longest game in NHL history, Panthers outlast Hurricanes 3-2 in 4th OT
"Florida Panthers for Matthew chuck scored with 12.7 seconds left in the fourth overtime to get the Florida Panthers a three two win over the Carolina hurricanes in game one of the Eastern Conference final. The game was the 6th longest in NHL history. Chuck was elated to a score of the game winner. My favorite one so far in my life. Ryan lomberg of Florida appeared to have won the game in the first overtime, but his goal was overturned due to goalie interference. Panthers goalie Sergei bobrovsky made 63 saves while Frederick Anderson made 57 saves for Carolina, including 39 in the overtime periods, Dennis Cox, Raleigh, North Carolina.
AP News Radio
Jesper Fast scores on OT deflection, Hurricanes eliminate Devils in Game 5
"The hurricanes are in the Eastern Conference final for the first time in four years after beating the Devils in overtime three two and game 5. It was yes per fos providing the game winner on a power play. 7 O 9 into the extra session. I'll just have to open the puck is I had a weird feeling going into the overtime. I missed two kind of good opportunities. I feel like the next one will go in. So yeah, just happy I get a little touch of that one. Brent burns goal in the final minute of the second period, drew the canes, even with the Devils. Jacob slavin also scored in Frederick Andersen stopped 27 shots for the hurricanes. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Gaudreau scores two SHGs, Wild beat Avalanche 4-2
"The wild remain atop the central division after winning at Colorado four two, with the victory Minnesota has a three point lead on the avalanche and stars. Frederick goudreau led the way with two shorthanded goals. It feels good, I think the thing that feels the best is I think we did it the right way. We were focused for the old game and it's fun to get the result from an effort like that. Sam steel's first period goal off of melee in front of the abs net lifted many up for good at two to one. Over the last 21 games, the wild is scorching the competition with a record of 16 one and four. For Morton, Denver
AP News Radio
Swayman makes 36 saves NHL-leading Bruins beat Jets 3-0
"The bruins bounced back from their first back to back regulation losses of the season by blanking the jets three zero. Jeremy swayman handled 36 shots in his third shot out of the season and 8th of his career. The guys did such a good job boxing out. Let me see punch from the point. Made my job easy. So it was a good team win. We're excited about it. He got all the support he'd need when Trent Frederick scored just 50 seconds into the game. Pavel zacha also tallied in the first period at Dumas snow shek added an empty netter for the NHL's top team. The Jets have won four of their last 15 games after challenging for a division title. Connor hellebuyck stopped 21 shots for Winnipeg. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Quick posts first shutout with Knights, beats Hurricanes 4-0
"Jonathan quick notched his first golden knight shut out by stopping 34 shots in a four zero victory over the hurricanes. Quick as three and O since joining Vegas from Columbus at the trade deadline. It was his second shutout of the season and 58th of his career. Jonathan Marshall opened the scoring with his 20th goal, four O three into the game. Rally Smith Paul cotter and Bret howden also tallied in the night's 5th win in 6 games. Frederick Anderson made 20 saves for the canes, who had won four in a row. Carolina hadn't been shut out since late November. I'm Dave fairy.
AP News Radio
Wild beat Jets 4-2, extend points streak to 11 games
"After they were shot out by Calgary's Jacob markstrom at home Tuesday the wild got a fantastic performance for Marc Andre Florida to meet the jets just 24 hours later. The veteran turned aside 46 shots to stymie their division rival as Minnesota improved to 9 O one two in their last 11 games. Coach dean evason gave full credit to flurry for the victory. Our goaltender, you know, won the hockey game for us. Marcus foligno Frederick gaudreau and Ryan Hartman scored for the wild before mason Shaw iced it with an empty netter while Winnipeg slide continues. They have just two wins in their last 11 games. Christian O'Malley, Winnipeg.
WTOP
"frederick" Discussed on WTOP
"Year old woman dead. Keep it here for full details on these stories in the minutes ahead. It's one 48. Traffic and weather on the 8s, here's Joe Conway in the WTO traffic center. Well, sandy, as you mentioned indeed, in Frederick Maryland the crowd, they take a truck may have exploded on route 15 in Frederick near Rosemont avenue, we are hearing that the road is still closed as it has been since just around noon today, southbound is your jam from at least 26 liberty road to get to 7th street. It looks like that's your last chance to bail out. South of Rosemont avenue, you should be able to get back on 15 from say route 40. If your north, your last chance to bail is going to be a south Jefferson street before you're caught up in delays with a closure of west Patrick street beyond Rosemont avenue, your next chance to get on 15 north is going to be, I believe, at moderate avenue, maybe a 7th street, a bottom line is we've got the closure of place 15 both ways between 7th and west Patrick, it's going to be an extended closure for the ongoing cleanup of this major tractor trailer fire. Elsewhere in Maryland reports of any complications on 95 or the Baltimore Parkway standard volume delays to 70 is quiet both ways, long-standing crashing Glen Bernie was eastbound route 100, leaving oakwood road toward route two under police direction there on the beltway in Maryland reported problems. Beltway, Virginia, you're in good shape earlier crash 66 was east bend your one 23. It's confined to the right shoulder. South on George Washington Parkway near one 23, ongoing roadwork single file left is what gets you by an old town Alexandria, king street still closed both ways between route one and the waterfront as well as the cross streets in that stretch for the ongoing parade on the 95 corridor southbound delays across the aka Kwan then briefly in a quiet north bend delays are out of Quantico and stretches most of the way toward newington with a few breaks along the way, easy past things are still southbound. We are about to buy G four by gopa new teeth in 24 hours as possible with G four by gopa and gopa precision implant dentistry, technology, schedule your consultation at G four by gopa dot com. I'm Joe kama WTO traffic. And now to storm team four meteorologist Ryan Miller. Gusty winds will continue this afternoon and subside into the evening air temperatures will be in the upper 50s close to 60° and partly to mostly
Mark Levin
Tim Graham: NPR Promotes “The Communist Manifesto” in 2023
"NPR National pubic radio promotes the communist manifesto in 2023 by Tim Graham I listen to this it is unbelievable Absolutely unbelievable He says it's entirely predictable even inevitable that public broadcasting would favor socialism Actually Marxism and all its programming but it's a little more surprising when it openly touts the communist manifesto Since I'm a conservative go out and for punishment he says I was driving on the highway on Sunday morning listening to that national pubic radio distributed program on the media with host Brooke gladstone The brickster A longtime fixture at NPR it's a woman Was predictable when she chatted with socialists and Naomi orchis About their mutual loathing of free market fundamentalism Free market fundamentalism But the next segment was even worse My jaw dropped Gladstone gushed that since 1847 Karl Marx and Frederick engels had offered refuge inspiration and argument So many arguments still she oozed Like Hamlet's ghost the manifestos both in possible and imperative in its call for action Oh they're so poetic Then she introduced British author China Melville Whose 2022 book a specter haunted is she said a non fiction rumination on that stalwart text The communist manifesto is crap Everything marks predicted Is wrong
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Dinesh Reflects on the Greatest Black Americans in History
"I'm continuing my discussion of the greatest black Americans of our history. As I mentioned in the last segment, a leftist historian of scholar would quite likely rank Martin Luther King number one, Frederick Douglass number two and WEB Dubois number three, my ranking is different. Frederick Douglass number one, Booker T. Washington number two and Martin Luther King number three. Now arguably I'm doing this because the top two Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington were lifelong Republicans. They both were. Martin Luther King, as I say, was sort of more ambiguous later in his life he associated more with the Democratic Party. But Frederick Douglass understood that the Republican Party was founded not just as the antislavery party, but also as the anti racism party. By the way, there's a very interesting book by Eric foner, who's by who ISO himself a progressor, but it talks about the legacy of the Republican Party in the north. And he talks about the fact that although, yes, you will find Republicans who uttered conventional racial views of the time and Lincoln himself if you forged or link and you can find certain quotations by Lincoln that taken out of context or by themselves would seem to imply that Lincoln isn't all that friendly isn't granting full equality to blacks. But in context, when you see the full link and you realize that Lincoln was, in fact, had a very color blind view. Now he realized that other Americans didn't, and he realized that he needed the votes of those other Americans. So at times what Lincoln would do is downplay what he himself truly believed in order to find common ground with people who thought we thought differently. And this is, by the way, what democratic politicians do all the time.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Who Is the Greatest Black American in History?
"Warren black history month and so I thought I would focus today on the question who is the greatest black American of our history. In fact, not just who is the greatest, but whose number one, whose number two, whose number three. Now, if you went to black studies departments or progressive scholars and asked them to give you their ranking, I think that their ranking would go like this. They would put Martin Luther King as number one. And they would have Frederick Douglass, the runaway slave as number two, and they would probably have WEB Dubois as number three. And you can see that this is a ranking that is somewhat weighted in the progressive favor. And by that, I mean Martin Luther King was not really, I wouldn't say clearly a Republican or a Democrat. He tended to avoid a clear identification with either party. Now I've seen some people on social media go Martin Luther King was a Republican. I'm actually not aware of any evidence that he specifically called himself that. Now his father, I believe, was a Republican. Martin Luther King, I think, was sort of nothing, neither party. But he did more openly identify with Kennedy, JFK, and then certainly with LBJ with the signing of the Civil Rights Act. I think it's probably fair to say that Martin Luther King was clearly in the democratic camp by 1964, and if anything he moved further left after that. So you can see the progresses of picking king as he's like, he's one of ours. We don't like his color blind thing all that much today, but nevertheless he was on our side.
The Garden Question
"frederick" Discussed on The Garden Question
"And then also, I would think the safety steps and things like that you're making them safer and then also security side of it too. Yeah, that's a key part when we discuss the value of outdoor landscape lighting. It really does add a number of factors to your project. One, that sort of vacation that extension of the home and safety and security is key to that as well. They do have statistics that show that outdoor lighting does cut down and add security to the outside of your house by eliminating dark spaces, dark corners and a well lit house feels better coming home at night, driving up your driveway and seeing that, well lit home, that's safer place at draws you in and it just makes you feel better. Or the characteristics of a well designed outdoor space. As we talk through this, I think lighting is one aspect of outdoor living design. My background is designed cooling in my history in the industry. I bring a design aspect to it, which is part of why I get excited about lighting. It's just one piece of the puzzle. And I think there is good design and poor design and landscape lighting as there is with any other aspect of an outdoor living space. And I think that's part of the growth of being in the industry, installing jobs, learning as you go, identifying key characteristics, key features in the landscape of what looks good lit up, what doesn't look good lit up, how you light it up. There's different factors that we can talk about in terms of color temperature, beam spread, different light fixtures to use for different aspects of the garden. So I think there is a skill to landscape lighting design. A lot of that comes with experience and asking other people in the industry, what they do. I've gotten involved in a number of Facebook groups and I've learned so much just by interacting with other people in our industry that post questions and answers in terms of design and installation. Let's start with what is low voltage landscape gliding. What I assume being in the industry for 20 years is a pretty basic question, but I still need a number of customers contractors that don't really understand what low voltage lighting is. It is pretty simple. What we're doing is we're taking the 120 Volt output on your home and we're converting it to 12 volts. And we do that for a number of reasons. One, it simplifies the installation and allows a non licensed electrician or even a homeowner to install landscape lighting on their property. Now, there are some areas of our country that require a permit or a licensure, but typically in the U.S. guild contractor can install low voltage lighting. We're really just taking a 120 volts out of your house out of an outlet and we're converting it with a box to 12 volts and that allows us to run low voltage wire through the landscape..
History That Doesn't Suck
"frederick" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Journey toward racial integration. And hey kudos to her freshly admitted to the bar. Twenty four year old lawyer. He's a friend of ours from episode. Ninety-one future us president. Chester arthur. Okay so from minstrel shows to we now know jim. Crow actually has some rather northern routes a. Why haven't i been talking about the south. Well the system of slavery actually could require a great deal of interaction between enslave. Her and enslaved. This means that to some extent co define social practices in drawing. Stark legalize didn't actually make sense in the south until after the slavery ending thirteenth amendment now reconstruction held these floodgates back initially but by the eighteen eighties southern democrats those redeemers as they call themselves. Have the power. They soon begin to pass. Jim crow laws at the state level. One of these laws as we know from today's open is the louisiana separate car active eighteen ninety which requires railroads in the state to have separate cars for white and black passengers so then democrats are thrilled as evidenced by the time democrat newspaper reporting in favor of it quote. A young lady of the city had two or three days ago to travel from new orleans to austin texas. The only sleeping accommodation on board that was to be had was the lower birth in a section of which the upper birth had been secured by negras. The city and accommodation was as much crowded as that for sleeping and the young lady had to occupy seat in the section in which she passed the night with the same negras the instance which we have just narrated without comment goes to show that the date for the louisiana separate car act. Going into force will not arrive a day too soon. Close quote if i may provide one word of comment damn well civil rights loving americans do not see what the times democrats sees. Black-americans challenged louisiana separate car act as well as similar acts across new south. All the way up in michigan black clergymen and leaders rail against the separate car act at a civil rights league meeting held on november nineteenth. Eight thousand nine hundred one professor d. Augustus straker proclaims to his black and white audience. We are supposed to be enjoying the same rights that are claimed by the whites but that is not true. In fact in short he and the other speakers contend that segregation isn't only immoral. It's unconstitutional a violation of the fourteenth amendment's guarantee of equal protection of loss. Sounds like they'd get along with homer plassey. The man whom we met in the cold open as he defied the separate car act his homework plus he joins the ranks of a new generation of black leaders like ida b wells w. e. boyce and booker t. washington we mourn the loss of one of the greatest leaders. The nation's ever seen.
KOMO
"frederick" Discussed on KOMO
"Frederick David D. Alger. It's the annual reading of names 20 years since nearly 3000 people were killed in the September 11th attacks. After a second moment of silence at 903 am marking the moment a second passenger jets struck the World Trade Center Bruce Springsteen performed I'll see you in my dreams. President Biden is at the ceremonies or former president Obama and Clinton. Former President George W. Bush is in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where United flight 93 crashed when passengers fought back ABC JUJU Chang is there and says there is a candle ceremony last night Beautiful candle ceremony, each family placing a lantern with a candle inside in front of the memorial. 40 white marble slabs. Continuing coverage Remembering 9 11 I'm Brian Clark ABC NEWS com Oh news 1000 FM 97 7 57 degrees under cloudy skies over downtown Seattle at 6 31 A good Saturday morning to I'm Bologna, Elin for Mark Christopher today. Your top stories now from the coma. 24 7 News Center. In the final Update for the week, the State Health Department reporting more than 4300 new infections of Covid 19 across the state. 68 more deaths have been linked to Covid 19 as well. Another 81 people admitted to hospital since this time a day ago. 34% of ICU beds in the state now filled with Covid patients. Nearly 56% of the state's population is now fully vaccinated against Covid 19. We'll demand for testing has spiked in the last few weeks, with kids going back to school, the people traveling and others opting for tests instead of vaccinations. State Health Department says in August alone, they shipped out the same number of testing kits as they did during the last six months combined. Semi Holland is a U double test site leader as we're seeing breakthrough tests and people who obviously don't want to get vaccinated. We really need to stay vigilant to try and keep our numbers down. County just opened a testing site in the Kingdom Moines area to keep up with the surgeon testing. Along with all the people that are trying to get tested. The Health department also dealing with a shortage of covid antigen tests as well as stamping issues in some areas. Department of Health says the supply issues should stabilize within a few weeks. It does recommend that anyone who wants to get tested should make an appointment instead of just showing up at a testing site. Businesses across Washington state are wondering how the federal vaccine mandate will affect their workforce. Soon. Some private companies will have to make sure their employees get the shot against Covid 19 como Suzanne Font talked with Tammy Hetrick. Of the Washington Food Industry Association about what the mandate could do to our labor force Private companies with 100, More employees will require workers to get vaccinated or get tested weekly. Workers who refused to get vaccinated could be penalized in Puget Sound. Major tech employers like Microsoft, Google and Facebook already require employees to get vaccinated if they return to the office to work. E commerce giant Amazon has not imposed any vaccine mandate for its employees. Industry experts say many warehouse workers might quit if they have to get the shot. The Food Industry Association represents hundreds of grocery workers. It's worried about the employee vaccine mandate. There was a high percentage of workers that would leave their job if they were forced to be vaccinated. You know, I I am glad that there is an option for testing. But still, we don't know what that looks like. A weekly testing is very expensive. Big questions remain about the vaccine mandate, like how many employees will be impacted in Washington, or how will the new mandate being forced Cuomo News asked Department of Labor and industries what it plans on doing about the federal mandate. They say they're waiting on OSHA to draft the rules to implement it. This might take weeks. Suzanne Font Communists..
Made of Mettle
"frederick" Discussed on Made of Mettle
"With and a point frederick to high positions in their government this was a feat of feats for any common man but was living me impossible dream for an african american man in that time period in his final position. Working as consul. General of haiti. Frederick disagreed with america's decision to acquire important haiti and converted to a military station in eighteen. Ninety one this division. And course of action. 'cause frederick to have to resign from the position as he truly did not believe in the cause. Frederick would spend the final years of his life in dc where he continued to be committed to activism and political justice. Sadly frederick's wife passed away on august fourth. Eighteen eighty two from a stroke. Frederick would go on to marry his secretary and an almost unheard of mood. That would put him at odds with his family. This was nothing new. To frederick and he would not be phased to speak more on his previously mentioned accolade of being the most photograph man of the nineteenth century. This was due in large part his visibility in his community and promoting the image of an educated intelligent and established african american man. I would also be involved in african american educational institutions in the dc area. His most prominent appointment was on the board of trustees at howard. University frederick was on board of trustees with howard university from eighteen seventy one to eighteen ninety five interacting with inspiring other trailblazers. Such as i to be wills can hint frederick would collaborate with either on a few projects. All centered around preserving and furthering african american culture in history. Frederick douglass passed away on february twentieth. Eighteen ninety five just after his birthday. Frederick's wife then created the frederick douglass memorial and historical association to preserve his home in all its contents. Fredericks home in c. Called cedar hill be acquired by the national park service in nineteen sixty two. It was then established as the frederick douglass national historic site in nineteen eighty-eight. Fun fact black. History month was established in february based on frederick's birthday of february fourteenth which was a guess to put it plainly frederick douglass was a formidable figure and activist in orator a writer. Our human rights advocate a husband and a father. Most importantly frederick was a man of action. Frederick lived a life that many of us could not even dream of enduring the suffering. But frederick didn't endure frederick overcame persevered and flourished. He went from being denied work on the shipyard to being invited back to the white house. He went from being illiterate to publishing multiple autobiographies newspapers and monthly publications. He went from being told he would amount to nothing to be. One of the most renowned statesman of his time frederick saw the status quo and thought. I'm going to change this. We can only hope to gain a modicum of the state leanness. That was frederick douglass..
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"frederick" Discussed on Made of Mettle
"African americans were freed from slavery but still had much work to do to establish themselves in a society that did not want to welcome them. Frederick worked in various ways to help extend civil rights to newly freed. African americans in particular frederick supported several amendments further protecting and establish african americans such as suffrage and instituting the fourteenth amendment. To put it simply. Frederick was an advocate for human rights. It is not well known. I don't think that frederick attended the eighteen. Forty eight women's rights convention in new york and was coined. A women's rights advocate frederick truly believed in the concept that african americans should come together and political matters as there was strength in numbers due to the extreme racism and violence being perpetrated against african americans in southern states. Frederick also supported african americans moving to northern areas where they're at the very least tolerated though not wholly accepted it as equals in eighteen. Seventy two frederick would make his big move to washington dc. This is also where frederick would establish his final newspaper titled new national era unfortunately unlike his previous newspapers this one will collapse due to mismanagement just a couple years after it was published. Not to be confused. Though frederick had many other projects going on at the same time in eighteen seventy four frederick was named the president of friedman savings entrust sadly this too would collapse due to poor management within the bank. That frederick was not made aware of until much later the ramifications from the failed bank position did more to hurt fredericks reputation than anything something that he'd worked hard to build in the dc political network. Frederick was able to successfully repair his reputation in dc going on to receive multiple positions in government. Starting in eighteen. Seventy seven frederick was appointed as the first african-american. Us marshal by president rutherford hayes. He was then appointed to the position of recorder of deeds for the district of columbia in eighteen. Eighty one by president. James garfield frederick was also appointed as the us minister resident in consul for haiti in eighteen. Eighty nine by president ben harrison. If you've been keeping track that is four separate. Us presidents who were confident enough to strategize..
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"frederick" Discussed on Made of Mettle
"Would travel back to america in eighteen seven during his travels frederick was able to acquire financial support from those who believed in him and his noble causes fertig returned home truly free in immediately began work on yet another ambitious project. And what project was that. You may wonder frederick was born to create and publish his own newspaper with this goal in mind. Frederick created the north star. The north stars first issue was published on december third eighteen. Forty seven the northstar was a great success and ranch strong with excellent readership until eighteen. Fifty one it was at this time. That frederick decided to combine his paper with another famous anti-slavery publication in the area called the library party paper to ultimately form frederick douglas's paper. Yes you heard that correctly. The newly-formed newspaper was called quite simply frederick douglas's paper this alone demonstrates just how much brand recognition frederick had cultivated in this time that he was able to garner readers with a self-named newspaper. Frederick douglas paper was published until around eighteen sixty in tandem with another paper. Frederick was writing titled the douglas's monthly around. This time frederick was living in the area of rochester. New york this area fostered a thriving. Abolition is community as such frederick was exposed to differing opinions and strategies for eradicating slavery that more so resonated with his own ideals again in spite of the terrible violence perpetrated against frederick. He did not believe in using violence as a means of securing freedom. Frederick firmly believe a nonviolent course of action would be the answer and this principle underscored all of his beliefs previously with other abolitionist groups. Frederick supported the main core beliefs of these groups that the constitution was not to be considered a valid legal document as it supported the system of slavery. These anti-slavery groups also believed that participation in any american politics would be supporting the establishment of slavery and thus abstained from any in all political involvement after frederick was exposed to anti-slavery groups that advocated for abolitionist to become involved in politics. Everything changed frederick realized that this path more so mirrored his own beliefs and he began to share his opinions that encourage political action and intentional involvement. This marked the start of an extraordinary period. For frederick frederick had already begun his rise in american politics and most importantly helped to further the goal of abolishing slavery on a global scale while living in rochester. Fredericks home was used as a stop on the underground railroad. Consequently frederick was able to network and meet many abolitionists during this time period as such later on in eighteen..
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"frederick" Discussed on Made of Mettle
"Hey there be one. My name is ari in welcome to made of metal a motivational podcast. Where we tell stories about regular people overcoming insurmountable odds so thank you so much for joining me again. This is part. Two of the frederick douglass series in part one. We've followed frederick journey from an enslaved child who was carted from plantation to plantation to a renowned orator and statesman who spent his days educating the public on his experiences in order to abolish the very system that held him captive for so many years. Yes that was a mouthful. Where'd we'd left off exactly. Was that frederick. Have begun working for to abolitionists. Organizations called the american anti-slavery society as well as the massachusetts anti-slavery society fergie quiz engaged in a tense debate with his comrades challenging their call for violence with the need for nonviolence in furthering their agenda again voicing his opinion too much opposition within his camp. But if anyone was familiar with going against the grain it was frederick douglass during this time period. While frederick traveled in spoke about his life he began to realize that his audience doubted the authenticity of his stories. Although frederick had indeed been enslaved people would point out articulate in educated he was highlighting his other worldly public speaking skills saying that someone who was enslaved would never be able to speak in such a way. These characteristics were presented as evidence that fragile could have never lived. The life he'd claimed with that in mind frederick began important work just a few years after his great debate at the national convention of colored citizens in buffalo. New york frederick would publish his first. Autobiography fredericks autobiography titled narrative of the life of frederick douglass. An american slave written by himself was published in eighteen forty five. This book was revolutionary and groundbreaking for several reasons. The biggest one being that frederick. Road it himself. It also served as a way of providing concrete intangible evidence of frederick's previous years in enslavement further legitimizing. His cause and his background frederick also published this book with full knowledge that he would be exposing himself to the possibility of being recaptured by his previous owner. Because keep in mind at this time. Frederick was a fugitive slave in quotation marks. At this point. With all this in. Mind frederick stu went ahead and published his autobiography as he believed there was more strength to be shared in the message. Frederick would go on to publish two more autobiographies later on in life. Audience is everywhere from america to overseas were enraptured with frederick's book the books international success encouraged frederick to take his lecture campaign across the pond right after his book was published frederick. We spent a few years traveling around the uk giving his amazing speeches and lectures. Eventually frederick was able to garner enough attention and support that the public campaigns secure his freedom was created in the uk. This campaign was successful. And frederick was legally granted freedom from his previous owner who still pursued frederick ruthlessly especially after his growing successes with his freedom and international fame in tow frederick.
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"frederick" Discussed on Made of Mettle
"The massachusetts area had a strong abolitionist movement. And frederick discovered an abolitionist. Newspaper called the liberator in eighteen. Forty one frederick decided to attend the massachusetts anti-slavery society convention while at the convention a gentleman by the name of william coffin invited frederick to speak to the attendees after having heard frederick stunning or tori skills in new bedford. Frederick speech was an absolute hit and he was promptly recruited to join the group. It can truly be said. That frederick wasn't abolitionist. His entire life but he began to travel and spent his time promoting after joining the massachusetts anti-slavery society as well as the american anti-slavery society. The belief of the american anti-slavery society was that slavery was a moral wrong. That should be eradicated through. Non-violent means in education frederick was particularly strong on promoting the nonviolent aspect of resisting slavery in eighteen forty. Three frederick attended the national convention of colored citizens in buffalo new york while they're another african. American abolitionist named henry highland garnet gave a speech with the central theme of slaves having a violent uprising against their owners. This was a controversial declaration and one that sparked a fierce debate. Between frederick and henry fergie made it clear that he did not support such a notion or any plan of action that insinuated or required violence consequently frederick strength in his beliefs. Put him at odds with those who looked just like him. Other african american abolitionists were very much in favor of the idea of an uprising. Putting frederick as the odd man out although his beliefs were not universally liked or accepted. This did not prevent frederick from being vocal about them. It's difficult to stand up for what you believe in but even more so when the people who are supposed to be your allies. Become your opposition. Frederick strength of character his unending curiosity and intelligence so much can be said for the fire. That was inside. Frederick douglass frederick had the almost magical ability to connect with the crowd and impart a piece of himself his passion for peace education and freedom for all enough that people of all colors travel far and wide just for a chance to hear him speak to be able to command. A room in that manner requires a degree of self assurance that we could all aspire to. I'm gonna end part one right here as this is really a jumping. Off point for frederick skyrocketing career just as a reminder frederick was born. Enslaved beaten abused degraded beyond belief. It was illegal for him to even learn how to read and write to possess basic literacy skills. He had now at this point in his life become one of the most renowned orators of his time spreading the word about his experiences. Educating others helping to relieve the pain for generations after him frederick took what was given to him and molded it into something fierce resilient in tough welcome continue has amazing story in part to as frederick is just getting started in his outstanding legacy so you can find made of metal podcast on facebook and instagram at made of metal podcast altogether and that made of metal m.
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"frederick" Discussed on Made of Mettle
"That frederick would engage in one of the most difficult for his life both mentally and physically as with any other day. The farmer tried to physically assault frederick in order to make him comply but in this instance. Something unbelievable happened. And that is that frederick fought back..
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"frederick" Discussed on Made of Mettle
"Everyone. My name is ari in welcome to made of metal a motivational podcast. Where we tell stories about regular people overcoming insurmountable arts. Now i don't know if you guys have any marylanders in your life besides me of course but one thing about us. We are crazy proud of our state heavy on the crazy. We put our state flag on anything you can think of in there so many stores here that sell literally only maryland state flag branded goods. And they are booming. Let me tell you guys lucrative lucrative businesses right there. So of course. I'm going to cover another amazing marylanders on my podcast are also wanna shout. A friend who inspired me and who basically told me this would be a great person to cover. I've been thinking about it. And i was like why not so. Let's get right into it. Oh and i love suggestions so feel free to send me a dm on instagram or facebook you know. Send me some of your own suggestions of inspirational people. I want to hear. I love it all. So the individual we're learning about today is another significant historical figure who was pivotal in social change in our society. Social change that we are still living in today. This person grew up in the worst of circumstances constantly beaten down and forced to believe that they were not worthy of basic human courtesy and respect in spite of this. They rose above their plight to become one of the most respected statesman in the history of the united states. This individual was an intellectual. A writer an abolitionist and an amazing orator among so many other outstanding things not to mention he was reportedly the most photographed american man of the nineteenth century. How does one even get that accolade. Amazing so we will be covering the scholar. The stately the savior frederick douglass. This is part. One of the two part frederick douglass series. so let's get right into it frederick. Douglass was born around february. Eighteen eighteen on a farm in talbert county maryland..
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"frederick" Discussed on WTOP
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"frederick" Discussed on KGO 810
"That we were lucky to have Lincoln because Lincoln was the man who understood what needed to be done to bring us to this point. 80 88 tennis, the telephone number. Oh, let's go to Is it a Rahm or Kerem in Palo Alto? I wrong, Erin. Hi. Hey. How you doing? It's Sarah more promise than expected of Persian flavor, too. So, yeah, of course I I Love the speech of you know what does the forces your life means? African Americans? That's not prevent him but but one of the things that I've been trying to promote for the last Number of years is that for those that would like to celebrate other than Independence Day on the Force of July, But it should be renamed code named Frederick Douglass Day so that we can appreciate that having alternative to all the nationalism and the flags and The pomp and circumstance is that some people want to, you know, celebrate. I don't particularly want to. So you know, don't you think that he has really been unless you pursue it? Or unless you're studying history in college? Don't you think Frederick Douglass has been left out when he is such a vitally important figure. Well, yeah, on goes for so many other extraordinary African American figures to say the least. So anyway, let's see if we can promote a new alternative where people can celebrate one or the other on the fourth day of July. And you know, maybe we can mix the two at some point to bring the country together. But there's a book and I read it with my wife some years ago. It's on, you know, called Douglas and Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Lincoln. And they're wonderful relationship. Private doctors could actually walk into the White House to the great to the chagrin of a love that was standing in line to get a swell anyway. I think that's what much thank you so much. I think that's one of my favorite stories and in such a small story, but it meant so much. That you know. Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass walk to the White House where there were all these people. White people lined up to have an audience with Abraham Lincoln. And when Lincoln saw that a Frederick Douglass had had approached the White House, he told the guard in the front. Bring him here. Now bring him right here. And they would have these long conversations It was. It was really remarkable. Yeah. Frederick Douglass was a truly remarkable man. I want to know more about him. And I'm hoping that I know there have been some biographies that have been written, and I just ordered the book that Ken was referencing, which is really an autobiography that Frederick Douglas wrote about himself. But I'd like to Seymour in our popular culture about Frederick Douglass. There's so many things about him that I find astounding, including his mastery of the English language. Oh, my God, the way this man writes, you know, Lincoln may have been one of the greatest orators of our history. So is Douglas. He Woz unbelievable and to think that he had been born into slavery. That he that he escaped slavery that he was largely self taught that he carried himself. With such pride with such great dignity, you know when we were talking when we were honoring Sicily, Taison images of Frederick Douglass kept coming back to me, just in the things that I've seen of him. The images that we do have are the drawings or the you know the early pictures that we do have a Frederick Douglass. What a marvelous figure in history he was, And I think that he insistently Tyson shared some of the same attributes. Okay, I got to take a break. I love talking about this stuff. But I need to invite Chip Franklin on so that he could tell us what he's got coming up on his show, Which is going to be next real quickly, so that I don't forget. We not only have Tim seeker on tomorrow to take us into the weekend with a little comic relief. We also know you spared me. That was my yea start. We all start. We also have a couple of guests who are going to be with us to talk about the mass of the E. D. D. And they're going to be taking listener phone calls to talk about unemployment. What's been going on What you could do what your recourse is what your problems are. And so we are inviting you to join us believe it starts at noon tomorrow. Here on KGO, um We're going to take your questions, and hopefully we're gonna be able to get some of those questions asked and answered, I mean, really taken care of. So you know where to go, so that you could get what you're entitled to. We'll be right back with Chip Franklin. This is K G o.