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The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Director John Grooters Describes His Recent Trip to Nepal
"John, welcome to the podcast. Of course, we have one of your films already up in my local channel the frontier boys, and if I scroll down into the comments, people just love that film. It's very different kind of a film. It's basketball, it's high school, it's located differently than Sabina, but I just wanted to thank you for letting for working out a deal where we could have these films available to people to me it's such a refreshing contrast from just, you know, surfing Netflix and one horrible choice after another. And Debbie and I could not be more excited about Sabina. So we'll get to Sabina in a moment, but you just got back from Nepal doing some film scouting, well, first of all, what was it like? And what are you scouting for? Well, yeah, thank you, dinesh. It's always a great pleasure to speak with you. And I'm just honored that our films are going up on your channel. I really love your audience. I'm one of them. I'm part of them. And I hope they enjoy the frontier boys and Sabina. Yeah, excuse me. My wife and I were in Nepal. In the mountains, way up in the Himalayas, and the annapurna in a very remote little village is scouting for some projects that will be shooting in January. I'd never been to Nepal before and we took a helicopter from Kathmandu up into this mountain village about an hour and a half and flew right past the most incredible mountain range I've ever seen in my life and I've seen the Dolomites in Italy. I've seen the Alps and Switzerland and the rockies, but my goodness. The Himalayas are amazing. And the people are very wonderful there. There's a hospitality gene that they're born with that they treat guests with great dignity and honor. So it was wonderful. We'll be shooting a couple of short films in January that talk about the world of the Buddhist monk and the boys in Buddhism are sent to the monsters at about age four or 5. And then they spend their lives there.
Travel with Rick Steves
"himalayas" Discussed on Travel with Rick Steves
"An GE. Sylvia, did you think much about thin places? I've always been intrigued by this notion that there are some thin places on this earth that are kind of closer to the heavens or heaven. And you really feel that there's maybe it was thin altitude up there, but you must have met interesting holy men on the trail in the middle of nowhere and you had this interesting mix of Buddhism and Hinduism. How did that strike you when you're out there in the middle of Nepal? Well, I don't know if one can understand it unless they're there, but you're right. The air is very thin. It's just classically this rarefied air, which explains why for thousands of years this area of the world has been so revered, and you, you know, you're just constantly surrounded by these peaks over 26,000 feet, they're just very regal and they're very, it is a very sacred, very pure place. I think because I'm always drawn to the high altitude. It's maybe more accessible for me there, but of course there's other places in the world you can feel this too, but I was very privileged one day, I was walking once again by myself because the people I was with were always miles ahead of me. And I saw these past me from behind I hadn't heard them at all. These two wandering saw dues, and a saw do as they, like, a religious person, a tradition in the east, and they live, they don't have any permanent housing or buy food or have money, their whole life is a spiritual quest, and they move from town to town, and the culture there honors them by giving them food or a place to stay, but here I am in the middle of nowhere, there carrying absolutely nothing, they're wearing like a robe with a very coarse material, and when they went by me, it was as though they weren't even walking. They seemed to just float by me. It was the most ethereal experience. Wow, you have to be in a certain mindset where you're open to that because a lot of people could look at that person and just think, oh, look at his toes. He hasn't bathed for weeks or that matted hair or why do they put that on their faces, but you could also look at it like they're just floating by you, bringing all sorts of thoughtfulness from village to village. Well, you know, it's really interesting. You say that because I had an extraordinary experience upon my return, I had been there for three months. I come back here and I met somebody kind of an acquaintance that was just about to leave for a year. And I'm so excited to share my experience. I just had so much joy. I wanted to share. And then I ran into them like less than a month later. And I went, oh my goodness, what are you doing here? I thought you guys went for a year. And they much to my amazement, they said, oh, oh my gosh, we had to come home. We just couldn't stand it. There was, you know, no hygiene, no drinking water, no and on and on and I thought, wow, you know, they're absolutely right. There was no drinking water, there was no hygiene, but I just kind of went right over all that and saw so much beauty, but you really right. It's people see very differently. So what goes through your mind when you're on top of a mountain in the Himalayas all alone? Gosh, I'm rather speechless, I would say it's a more, I don't know what other word to use other than spiritual. It's just on another level. It's a spiritual event. What does it mean to be human? Why are we here? Exactly. And there's a tremendous sense of peace. Yeah. Even if it's windy, even if it's that sense of emptiness and yeah, that's exactly I've always been fascinated by what it means to be human. And also understanding one's place in the world. I find that that's one real great difference, also, and in this area where I was very, very poor country, people are very poor, materially, economically, and yet their inner life is so rich and they have a very keen sense of their place in the world. I think many of us in the west often feel rather adrift in the world, not really anchored. It's poignant to me when people say have a safe trip. Sometimes I think that means have a trip where you're not going to go outside of your borders where you're not going to find something new that might make you reassess what you think is the norm or how you want to live your life. You're going to scramble things up if you have a to me. That's really interesting. I was recently somewhere and I wanted to go on this adventure and I just thought for sure somebody would want to join me at involved a couple days, you know, rather remote, a different language, this that and the other. And I just couldn't understand nobody wanted to go with me. And then one of my acquaintances said, well, maybe no one else is adventuresome as you are. Frankly, I don't really think of myself as adventuresome as much more curious. I'm just always very curious about how other people live and, of course, the landscape endlessly inspires me. Well, you even wrote, I remember you wrote in your book the landscape held me close. Well, tell us more about how the landscape holds you close. Well, it just provides a space of refuge. I remember one year decades ago, it was really rough. I had a lot of deaths of people very close to me. And I didn't consciously decide this, but a friend of mine said Sylvia, you have to go up to the mountains, and I really wasn't in any shape to go anywhere. But I went. And I ended up going just over and over again over a few month period, and it was really comforting to be in a space that I knew was in human terms pretty much not going to change. So I wanted to be around something solid, something firm, and the mountains have never let me down in that respect. That can be dangerous, the weather and all that, but they are very solid and they you know where you are with them, you know, that's the landscape holding you close, giving you some firm footing and putting things in perspective and it's kind of humbling, but it's also empowering. Silvia oranges are guests on travel with Rick Steves. Sylvia credits her degree in landscape architecture with influencing the bold colors and forms she uses in her landscape paintings. She describes what three months hiking in the Himalayas showed her in her book two breaths one step. Sylvia also shows samples of her artwork from Nepal at two breaths one step dot com. While in Nepal, Sylvia visited one of the highest villages in the world, the remote settlement of gokyo just because the name intrigued her. You can hear about that in an extra to today's show at Rick Steves dot com slash radio. You know, I've always thought about the value of culture shock and I think there's a some people try to avoid it. I think it's a good thing I think it's the growing pains of a broadening perspective and the flip side of culture shock is what I call culture shock in reverse. When you finally go back home in your case back
Travel with Rick Steves
"himalayas" Discussed on Travel with Rick Steves
"Kathmandu, she took a bus to the end of the line and just kept on walking for another 500 miles. Sylvia's turned her trip journal into a book and tells us what the adventure taught her next on travel with Rick Steves. The grand arc of the Himalayan mountain range spans across 5 countries from Pakistan all the way over to Bhutan. The khumbu region in Nepal is The Crown jewel home to the highest mountains in the world. Expansive scenery, soaring peaks, ancient cultures, and the need to tackle extreme conditions have long made Nepal and adventurers Paradise. Now back in 1984, when gore Tex was newly invented, Kathmandu is just a sleepy outpost, a young American woman named Sylvia verone set out on a three month 500 mile long trek across the Himalayas. This was a time when few single woman attempted such an expedition. She relives her adventure in her book two breaths one step as a historical snapshot of the region and a travelogue of this once in a lifetime journey. Sylvia is an artist now in a writer who lives in California and she joins us to tell us about her trip. Sylvia, thanks for being here. Thanks so much, Rick. It's great to be here. So that was quite an adventure, especially back in the 80s. How did you choose to go to Nepal and on such a trick way back then? Well, certain places in the world have always just called to me. I have a great love for mountains in the high altitudes, and in acquaintance who had been to the Himalayas several times, but not this particular region, was going and when he mentioned that I instantly knew I was going, although I really had no idea how that was going to happen. You ended up going with a couple of people and you had porters. You wrote about the experience with your porters and how they would go ahead and prepare the meals and tell me about the sort of the routine of a day. How would a typical day trekking in the Himalayas have been for you? Well, the routine of the day was I'm not a morning person, but I always say I can get early in the morning when someone wakes me up with tea and biscuits, which is what the porters do. So we'd get up early. I don't know, maybe 5 or so and just have tea and basically pack up and start hiking. Maybe stopping for breakfast, something to eat around. 9 or so, and that would usually just be something called that we carried. And each day we would generally, we'd hike up a mountain down the other side, cross some amazing river valley, and then up another mountain. We'd stop around two or so for a main meal of the day, and they have a tradition of stopping a long time because they're preparing the food, it's hot food. And then hiking for the afternoon till you get to a place you can camp for the night. And what was the general route from where to where? The general route, when it's fascinating at this time in history in the early 80s, Nepal had the fewest roads of anywhere in the world. And if you wanted to go anywhere, you basically walked. So what we did is we just took a bus to the end of the road, got off the bus and started walking that bus was from Kathmandu. And we walked towards the Himalayas, which he could start seeing, and that truck was 350 miles and interestingly, when we were coming back, they added another mile or so to the road. You know, I was there just a couple of years before you, and I'll never forget flying from pokhara over to Kathmandu across Nepal in a little airplane and realizing there are no roads down here that I could see, so basically tracking was the way you got around to a great extent in that entire country, right? Yeah, exactly. And if you wanted anything, you know, anything in the mountains, meaning people that live there, it had to be walked in, which explains why, when I was there, none of the houses even in the little towns. None of them had glass windows. They had wooden shutters. But you'd see every manner of things being carried on the backs of oh. They wouldn't have glass because somebody would have to walk it in so they just try to get it locally. Now you're descriptions. I just love your descriptions. You know, different kinds of tea, cold baths in the rivers, the clouds and the fog dissipating to reveal grand views, tell us were you writing this down as you went, or did you remember this decades later when you decided to write the book? Oh, I kept an extensive journal while I was doing this trip and I really didn't occur to me to write a book until just a few years ago. And I still have that journal as well as my original maps, which were incredibly basic back then. It was very hard to get any kind of detailed maps. I did the same thing. I was there a couple years before you, and I wrote a 60,000 word journal, and it's a book that I wrote in, I didn't even know I was writing a book, but I just had a need to write it down, did you have a sense that you were experiencing something you'd want to be able to share with loved ones later, or did you write it for yourself or was it just a way to clarify your thoughts as you went? I think for me, it's probably a way to clarify my thoughts and also just to anchor me in a place to give me some sense of being there to root myself or I get kind of adrift. You wrote beautifully about spinning prayer wheels as you left the village. Tell me a little bit about what that was like. Those water wheels. Well, I think because everything probably was so different for me and so new, you know, I'm definitely a died in the wool westerner and here I am arriving in a little village which could be just two or three huts and there's a water wheel on the stream coming into the village. It's a large drum that's filled with prayers written down on more pieces of parchment, and the water is spinning it, and this prayer wheel is absolutely exquisite it could be anywhere from one foot to maybe quite large 5 feet high, beautifully painted, beautifully maintained, and the sole purpose of this prayer wheel is to send out blessings and prayers across the landscape, and I just thought, isn't that fascinating? I mean, there's no use to this water wheel. Whatsoever in terms of mechanically or, you know, it's not doing anything. It's not running a mill. It was power. It was powering blessings. It was flinging them into the cosmos. Yeah, and I just thought, isn't that just fascinating? I could probably do with that in our little town. It's a beautiful thing. And then apparently it was sort of a ritual when you left to town, even a tiny little Hamlet, then you would just walk by without even slowing down and you could just drag your fingers over those prayer wheels and send them spinning as you left. Exactly as you entered and as you left each village, there was always prayer wheels. This is travel with Rick Steves and our guest today is Sylvia Veronese, and she's a painter, a writer, a teacher from California, whose long wandered to remote corners of the world, she features one such journey in her book two breaths one step. It details her 500 mile trek through the Himalayas as a young woman back in the 1980s. Her upcoming book is titled, where people are wildflowers, and it'll describe her experience hiking, the Inca trail in Peru. Her website is Sylvia Veronese dot com that's VR
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Alfredo Ortiz: Joe Biden Has Not Been Good for Small Businesses
"States in action. America is a nation that can be defined in a single word. I was the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping. Traveling with them, and I traveled 17,000 miles when I was vice president. I don't know that for a fact. Alfredo, we're in trouble. I think he was trying to say supercalifragilistic exploitation. That would have made more sense. That I could have understood. Now I can realize a long time Mary Poppins fan. I could have related to that. I mean, honest to Pete, we have got a president, you know, one of the great questions is, is it deliberate or is he just out of it? Is it just, is he infirm? Is he senile? But at the end of the day, one thing Alfredo Ortiz knows and the job creators network knows, he has not been good for small businesses in America. Yeah, Mike, he really has and look, you know, I actually feel bad for the president. Whatever his condition is, whatever it is, I mean, I hope it gets addressed. I hope whatever is happening to him does get addressed, but you know, the reality is that he's the leader of our country and that's what's scary, right? It is. And it's dangerous. It's dangerous for our economy. It's dangerous for business. I am so tired of watching the way entrepreneurs and small business owners backs have been broken. They are desperately trying to stay above water. Nobody knows that better than you guys do. And I want to talk about the great opportunity project
The Book Review
"himalayas" Discussed on The Book Review
"But you know there's something a little bit alluring about living the life of a pod snap. Yeah, I mean, I wish I was. That's right. I have to admit that I am vastly underrated and Dickens. I read great expectations in high school, but I haven't read anything else. You know, I think I have a new Christmas tradition of reading either Dickens or something Victorian around Christmas time. I used to go up to this house that we would rent in Vermont over the Christmas holidays, mostly to ski, but also to read by the fire and that ceased during the pandemic, we could no longer rent that house. But it was there that I started the habit. But I think with bleak House, which I read by the fire and now I realized you know what, I'm just gonna make a fire at home, damn it. And pick up my Dickens novel here. So that's what I did. Each of the past three years or so, I've started each year with a particular friend promising that we leak house together. Then it hasn't happened yet, but hopefully soon. Oh, it's worth it. It's worth it. And a few other things, I just want to mention really quickly about this book. One is, in this book, he Dickens, I think, tries to make amends for the perceived and probably actual anti semitism of Oliver twist, which of course he later went back and rewrote fagan a little bit to address some of those anti semitic stereotypes. But here he creates an entire character. Some might say he overcorrected and that the Jewish character in this book is a Paragon of goodness. And then another character, this was sort of intriguing, but ended in disappointment. There's a character in the book named Jenny wren, who is born with some kind of very serious physical disablement. She can't really walk. And she her father is a drunk, it's a really, very actually modern description of alcoholism and her father. And so from a very young age, she's assumed the role of parent of her own father and very blatantly treats him as a child. And he is like a child and her name is Jenny wren, and I mentioned that because simultaneous with finishing this book I was watching The Beatles documentary the Peter Jackson Beatles documentary get back. And probably like many people after seeing the episode in which Paul McCartney writes get back in the space of ten minutes of just kind of sheer and overwhelming genius. I went down a Paul McCartney rabbit hole on Spotify. And he wrote a song called Jenny wren, and I was just all set to just discover this hidden Dickens fan in Paul McCartney, especially after having interviewed Paul mill dune on the podcast and looked at his book of lyrics, I thought, well, maybe. You know, there's no reason why he wouldn't write a song about the character Jenny wren from our mutual friend. But to my disappointment, it's really about kind of a bird like a woman slash bird. It's not about Jenny wren of our mutual friend. But the song has been.
The Book Review
"himalayas" Discussed on The Book Review
"All right, Alexandra. Thanks so much. Thanks for having me. My colleagues Greg Cole's and John Williams join us now to talk about what we're reading. Hey guys. Hey, pebble. Hi Pamela, hi, Greg. Greg, let's start with you. Well, I'm still reading 26 66 by Roberto Bologna, but it's going slow and I'm not at the femicide section yet. So as I have said previously on the podcast, I'm not going to talk about that one just yet. What I've also picked up in the meantime, partly because of Janet Maslin's review of it. And partly just because this is an author, I've never read that I know Pamela you like and our colleagues Tina Jordan and Liz Egan really like her a lot also is Jennifer haig, who has several novels behind her now. And her new one is called mercy street. It is set in Boston on mercy street a small street off of the common that Anne Sexton wrote a poem called mercy street about that street about trying to find a house that she remembered there. And in this Jennifer Hague novel mercy street is where a women's clinic is an abortion clinic where the main character Claudia works as a phone counselor and an intake counselor, bringing clients in. So it's a book very much about abortion and about women's rights. And I was a little bit hesitant to pick it up because of that, there's always a danger with these kind of hot button topical political subjects that the author will feel the need to preen and soapbox. But Janice review and Janet herself in talking to her about this book convinced me that that's not what Jennifer haig is all about. And in fact, she's not at all. We really get a lot about Claudia's background. She grew up poor in Maine and a trailer and Jennifer Hague specifies. It's a single wide trailer, not a double wide trailer, which makes all the difference in the world. It's essentially like a shipping container. With a mother who was very badly equipped to be a mother and took on lots of foster children just because the state gave her money to raise them. It was the only way that she knew of to make a living. But really not much of a caretaker, not much of a mother at all. And so Claudia has had to make a life for herself. And after a brief stint working at a women's magazine in her 20s, she quit, she moved to Boston. She starts volunteering at this clinic, and then is hired. And as the book opens, she's been there for like 9 years. The book opens on ash Wednesday and there's a fairly large group of protesters outside the clinic, which apparently is the case every ash Wednesday, it starts the lent protest season at abortion clinics. So you have this immediate sense of conflict and tension and that there's going to be a run in. And then Jennifer Hague subverts that expectation. It pulls you along expecting the conflict. And there's lots of conflict in the book, but it's not what you expect. It's not the violent sniper or bomb attack or anything like that..
The Book Review
"himalayas" Discussed on The Book Review
"And this has already become just like the pandemic itself a kind of polarizing subject. There was an interesting op-ed in the Los Angeles Times that the writer Tom bissell published, where he basically admonished people not to write pandemic novels. He pointed out and I did a little research and he was correct about this that the 1918 flu pandemic produced very little in the way of literary fiction, writers were not directly responding to that pandemic and their work. I think people wanted to move on. It was so traumatic. It was right after the war, and there was just so much exhaustion from mass global trauma. So you did see the 1918 flu come up in works later, but these were often decades later. And if it was evoked, it was very subtle. People would talk about bringing the church bells for the dead or something like that, but they wouldn't directly write about it. So Tom bissell argued there's a reason there's a lot of literature because disease is not a great organizing principle for a novel. It's not a very good adversary. It's random. It's invisible. It affects everyone. He was saying, don't do it. Stay away from it. And of course, then you have other writers chiming in on Twitter where else. Like Gary steinhardt, who wrote pandemic novel our country friends that came out last fall got great reviews. He said, counterpoint, write whatever the bleep you want. I can't see it on our podcast, but you can fill in the blank. It started an interesting debate, I think about how do you take this really insane world event and weave it into a story? Is it a distraction? Is it part of the atmosphere? Can you leave it out? Or is that weird? So it's something that a lot of writers are thinking about even in their next books that they're planning for 2023. Well, I'm going to mention a book that I've mentioned at least four times on this podcast over the years, but it is so good, which is William Maxwell's they came like swallows, which was about the 1918 pandemic specifically about his mother's death and it was an autobiographical novel. So one of the few good things that fiction wise come out of that tragedy. But the other thing, and I'm curious how you feel about this, Alexandra is looking at TV as another form that's trying to grapple with, like to what extent to you have things take place during the pandemic or not. What is it like for you watching TV shows where there's no pandemic? I sometimes have this kind of knee jerk reaction of like, where are your masks? How are you all sitting around? Just talking. I do have that reaction too. And I'm wanting to lean into anxiety. So I inhaled all of station 11. I binged it. This is an adaptation of Emily St. John mandel's pandemic novel, which actually came out in 2014, but the show on HBO came out this year. And so they actually had to make it during the pandemic. And I think it really changed the experience for the showrunners and all the actors. So yeah, I like to embrace it anxiety and the other thing that's great about her novel and the show is that their pandemic is much worse than ours. So in some ways, it can make you feel better. I did read a really interesting piece from our TV critic, James banua, looking at how shows are either putting the pandemic in the past by ignoring it, or use the.
The Book Review
"himalayas" Discussed on The Book Review
"Google Play or somewhere else. Please feel free to review us and of course email us at any time. Jasmine Chan joins us now from Chicago, her debut novel, and already a bestseller, is called the school for good mothers, Jasmine, thanks so much for being here. Thank you so much for having me on the show. So this book has such a delicious I can't believe nobody has done this yet premise. Give us the setup of your novel. Well, my novel is about Frida Liu, a Chinese American single mom who loses custody of her toddler daughter Harriet after having one very bad day. And in order to get Harriet back, she has to spend a year at a government run institution for moms from all over the county who's transgressions range from benign to horrific. So if the mothers don't pass the school's tests, they'll lose their parental rights. And the readers will follow her journey through the school and her struggle to hold on to her integrity while being indoctrinated. I like to describe the book as a little bit like 1984, but for moms. So this is the most obvious question, but I have to ask it, where did the idea come from? Because it felt like you took all these threads of things we've seen recently. There's a lot of conversation around foster parenthood and why kids get taken away and it reminded me of Kim Brooks, small animals, she has a memoir that came out a few years ago. And I think you've mentioned that a story by Rachel lviv in The New Yorker was one of your direct inspiration. So can you talk a little bit about that story what struck you about it in other influences? Well, Frida's very bad day definitely grew out of a very good writing day that I had in early 2014. So I'm definitely not someone who sits down with a plan to say today I'm starting a novel, but what happened was that I was entering my late 30s and I was very, very stressed out about the decision to have a baby or not. And feeling that the time pressure of choosing one of those paths. And a few months before my very good writing day, I'd read the Rachel Aviv article called where is your mother, which appeared in The New Yorker in late 2013. And that story is about a single mom who leaves her toddler son at home. And after that, and the neighbors call the police when they hear him crying. And after that day, she never gets them back. And I think something about that story just lodged in my mind. I didn't have it next to me when I started drafting and I didn't necessarily think about it in a daily basis. But I think it just left a kernel of rage inside me. And I felt I felt like the what happened to that mom was so unfair and I really wanted her to have another chance to raise her son and it really made me think a lot about the question of the government.
The Book Review
"himalayas" Discussed on The Book Review
"Which is this searching this desire, this curiosity to better understand the world and our place in it. And that is something that everybody feels regardless of where you're from. We all want to know where we fit into this great maelstrom. This great kind of chaos of the world. Where do we fit into this? What is our place? What is our role? What legacy are we going to leave behind? Whether that's family or a career or what have you. And I think it's those types of things that the average person can pick up and latch on to and really identify with. Even though these people may take it to the wilds of Alaska or the deep Himalayas in India. I think we all want to know what happened to Justin Alexander schettler. But I'm not going to ask you to reveal that on this podcast, people can read the book. But just one quick question about that legacy. When you look back now at his Instagram at his social media presence, having researched the book and written the book, what strikes you about it now that maybe you didn't see the first time? I first reported on this story for outside magazine. And that article was largely an investigation into what happened in India and the search to find answers. His family flew to India and his friends flew to India and there's this enormous search in the U.S. to try to find clues and I detail that in the book. When I started working on a much bigger version of that story, a much deeper one, I think what surprised me were some of those relatable aspects to it. For me looking at a budding social media star, I don't see a lot of myself necessarily in that. And I grew up really in a non religious household. And so I didn't necessarily think that I was going to connect so deeply with some of those torments, really. Some of those issues that Justin was grappling with, quite as deeply as I did working in this book. And in part that had to do with the research I did, the reading I did. But also to really put myself in Justin's shoes and in certain experiences and in certain perspectives that he had, and that really opened my eyes to some of these conflicts and some of these issues that he was working through that I never really felt like I would come across or I was always perhaps hesitant to..
The Book Review
"himalayas" Discussed on The Book Review
"To Justin shetler a 30 something adventurer disappeared in the mountains of India? Harley Brooks dad will be here to talk about lost in the valley of death. The story of obsession and danger in the Himalayas. And what would happen if the state could penalize mothers for not being good enough parents? Jasmine Chan will join us to talk about her bestselling novel, the school for good mothers. Alexander alter will be here to talk about what's going on in the publishing world. Plus, my colleagues and I will talk about what we're reading. This is the book review podcast for The New York Times. It's February 11th. I'm Pamela Paul. Harley.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Peter Daszak: The Man Behind Anthony Fauci
"We are governed by currently in this era of public health. Put that in quotes lockdowns and draconian drank draconian ism by a group of people that was largely unknown a couple of years ago but they have come to the forefront and have more power than any other people in the history of domestic american policy. One of those people is dr peter desk. Dr peter dasent is the villain behind the villain. Is the man behind foudy. Now many people ask the question. How is it that they spied on. Donald trump the same playbook that they used spy on donald trump. And go after lieutenant general. Michael flynn is precisely the same playbook that they use to launch this fraudulent campaign saying that the chinese corona virus came from the himalayas. It came from some bat soup. I'm reading from the daily mail dot com. It was revealed earlier last year. That peter desk a british scientists with longstanding links to the wuhan institute of variety had secretly orchestrated in landmark statement in the lancet in february two thousand twenty which attacked conspiracy theories suggesting the cove in one thousand nine does not have a natural origin. The now infamous letter signed by twenty-seven seven public health experts said they stood together to strongly condemn the theories that which they said quote do nothing but create fear rumours and prejudice. See that there. You have medical scientists telling us that it creates prejudice. They also lavished praise on chinese scientists. Who said they worked. Diligently and effectively to rapidly identified a pathogen behind this outbreak and share. Their results transparently the global health community. But now the lancet which is the top level of medical discourse and publication said near agreeing to publish an alternative commentary which discusses the possibility that laboratory research might have played a role in the emergence of the sars kobe to ouchi chinese corona virus. The scientists say quote. They need to evaluate all the hypotheses on a rational basis and away their likelihood based on facts evidence devoid speculation concerning potential and possible political impacts in february two thousand twenty. They even add that that statement in part of a silencing effect on the wider scientific debate. Yeah no kidding. Because peter dasent inserted themselves under orders from bouchier he is the pulp fiction equivalent of mr wolf.
Entrepreneur on FIRE
"himalayas" Discussed on Entrepreneur on FIRE
"Lot of people have dreams like i have dreams. Kate has dreams. People listening to this podcast. They have dreams. But there's a difference between having dreams and actually feet on the grounds accomplishing dreams. So let's get specific like let's really talk this through. Because i think fire nation can maybe learn from the action that you're going to be taking about great ways. They can go forward accomplishing their dream. So how are you accomplishing your dream of building the next napa valley in the himalayas recognizing once again that had didn't start off as my dream to be involved. I just thought it would be super cool if they did it But then once. I once i became involved in realized i could be a piece of this and actually i think that bhutan is probably the last country in the world. That has the organic potential to grow. Amazing wine grapes. That doesn't already do it. Most places that can do it had been doing it for thousands of years and it was just to your point earlier. It's remote. And so you know marco polo and the roman army never got there with their handfuls grapes and so they ever planted in there. But what i'm doing is is we've taken a very collaborative approach with that. The country You know there's a. I don't know if you're familiar with with batons spent some time and and obviously the himalayas but they have a concept called gross domestic happiness instead of gross domestic product which is an amazing way to live. But they believe that. What's more important is the happiness of their citizens rather than any arbitrary economic success and so they have different pillars that that guide the gross domestic happiness for us. What we did is. We didn't approach the wine industry as like. Hey here's a way to make a few bucks it was. Here's a way that we think that this mashes extremely well with what you're trying to do with gross national happiness. And and then we went around and we got buy in from all of the various ministries of the government. You know that would have a say in this. The ministry of agriculture the ministry of economic affairs and so so on and so forth so we started with that then. Obviously you know. There's a enormous amount of logistics to try to get grapes up to the himalayas in vineyard plant. And but were. We've planted eight vineyard so far were up to about. We've got a hundred acres or so in total vineyard land but only about fifty acres are planted where we're still trying to experiment and see what's going to work there because no one knows it's never been done before and so you know back to your tactical what do you do. Well you do as much research as you can but eventually you just gotta grip it and rip it and and so we're doing that but we're doing it in a very mindful fail forward kind of way.
Entrepreneur on FIRE
Building the Next Napa Valley In the HIMALAYAS With Wine Expert Michael Juergens
"Lot of people have dreams like i have dreams. Kate has dreams. People listening to this podcast. They have dreams. But there's a difference between having dreams and actually feet on the grounds accomplishing dreams. So let's get specific like let's really talk this through. Because i think fire nation can maybe learn from the action that you're going to be taking about great ways. They can go forward accomplishing their dream. So how are you accomplishing your dream of building the next napa valley in the himalayas recognizing once again that had didn't start off as my dream to be involved. I just thought it would be super cool if they did it But then once. I once i became involved in realized i could be a piece of this and actually i think that bhutan is probably the last country in the world. That has the organic potential to grow. Amazing wine grapes. That doesn't already do it. Most places that can do it had been doing it for thousands of years and it was just to your point earlier. It's remote. And so you know marco polo and the roman army never got there with their handfuls grapes and so they ever planted in there. But what i'm doing is is we've taken a very collaborative approach with that. The country You know there's a. I don't know if you're familiar with with batons spent some time and and obviously the himalayas but they have a concept called gross domestic happiness instead of gross domestic product which is an amazing way to live. But they believe that. What's more important is the happiness of their citizens rather than any arbitrary economic success and so they have different pillars that that guide the gross domestic happiness for us. What we did is. We didn't approach the wine industry as like. Hey here's a way to make a few bucks it was. Here's a way that we think that this mashes extremely well with what you're trying to do with gross national happiness. And and then we went around and we got buy in from all of the various ministries of the government. You know that would have a say in this. The ministry of agriculture the ministry of economic affairs and so so on and so forth so we started with that then. Obviously you know. There's a enormous amount of logistics to try to get grapes up to the himalayas in vineyard plant. And but were. We've planted eight vineyard so far were up to about. We've got a hundred acres or so in total vineyard land but only about fifty acres are planted where we're still trying to experiment and see what's going to work there because no one knows it's never been done before and so you know back to your tactical what do you do. Well you do as much research as you can but eventually you just gotta grip it and rip it and and so we're doing that but we're doing it in a very mindful fail forward kind of way.
Everyday Talkies
"himalayas" Discussed on Everyday Talkies
"And since i'm working in the evening. I used to have all these calls. I used to take from the irs. Protect them from the heights. Like i was to get the calls going higher. Please do that. i get a place. I'm looking at river. I'm looking at the proceedings of the rt everything. And i take this call center. Yeah please do that this. The follow ups right a meal so think people can try. Try try that works to be honest radio music because while you mentioned names and we'll talk on can call and then you win something. I remember and but that you lived amongst himalayas. You learned about so many causes. You picked off the boxes that he wanted to live in delhi. And you did that. You didn't Bananas new so. I guess what next what next is a sword for you because not over known alon has not seen after So the is still on the list. It's belong back of my mind and got some sources. I got some people. So they're like okay. Let's go to not stand. Probably the northeast will happen next. There is an honorable mention of go up. Closing may but i i was offered actually was an offer like you can come and live in. Go off for elektra and seven point five like that's really cheaply chief everything included but that didn't happen actually because of lots down so i kind of miss that i that have happened like one month in goer who would not get so. The northeast is still on the plan. Let's see how that goes. And i don't know let's ask me another another two. Maybe i'll be somewhere. We can record a podcast with me here. We on the road probably will love to your attractions are dead but madison. But who want to paint state. We'll be balloonist thing. Getting jealous want to live amongst the in malaysia needs amongst these ideas and work or spend at art originated respect too much money and but they want to live all these experiences new places. I think it would be the right person. You can reach out to him. He can guide us lindan but needed. This is really music. Thank you for sharing with us. Your experiences and all the learnings bought in a specially just one pots where i love those sections said that you look scientists with different people you learned about the life and then another place learned about how nature human. We're living in a symbolic support. You do which happens. Things bannered but man. I think it's it's stored right that traveling's the best teacher meters wondering example. No thank you. Thank you for having me. Actually i love to share their experiences. And i hope i get more people going into the vocation partner justification because working is also.
Everyday Talkies
"himalayas" Discussed on Everyday Talkies
"He was basically belong from the fashion and design clothes lines and everything and this spent most of his life in a bangalore and then he wanted to move back to lay out place or like a slow lifeless of the village so he bought a place and he started his own cafe again he but now like in recent times he got into the clothing. Business again So the government recently gave the permission to start making clothes from the marijuana leaves or the him basically him based clothing so he started making his own line. Here's some beautiful jackets. Designed the backpacks and everything from the him. Close and hemp is actually because it's organic and Past different protocols different texture of the fee to come to all other organic load. And i bought a jacket there. It's of all men. it's beautiful. I can't have any other words. Described that exciting these these wonderful people like himalayas. You just it's not chilling out per but you just start leaving the low-life life. I spent in casado v. When i was working saw in the morning who were three days at least spent three hours stating at all these a beautiful himalayan peaks racial devean and everything and just doing nothing just staring at then straight for two or three hours and i think that slow life. The sword travel gordon to me and i stayed that as i said i stayed there for a beat now. We are almost a month. I guess basically died on me combined with patiently ninety dollars and then concluded with this mistake. Yok assad we the place. I i was there in the mountains the last place than i thought. I didn't have any plan. But i always wanted to stay in delhi for few days. So add move back to delhi for like another week and stayed with different places at different experiences in. Leah's well beli. I don't know this in music. Gallup's halloween old deliver szekely. That's an interesting thing. i found personally. It is a vein or the of me like when one and a half five two from likely to go inside though billion find the place the source about a month and then actually decided to move to bananas for a week. I didn't have any plan but what was the hostile friend. Was there actually. Two of them were there and he wasn't yacht. Come to another show you around. And let's see what can be done. And i moved to banaras for a week and i was glad i i moved there because then again i was working to hold name like i was lucky. Staying in a place called copied. Hr so gamecube chart they have all this musicians and all the classical artists living their basic. It's the place where foundation of the bananas godina. So they have all the musicians living on the one side and all died is the thought the players and harmonium player living on the other side and his place was just down bradley so every day i was to go to somebody's place you start them. Can i listen the whatever you're singing or whatever you're doing and they were quite happy so every i used to have my with food people i. I don't know much of classical music. But i used to enjoy it. I used to ask the questions like what you're playing. Whatever it dozen. That was just beautiful expedience. every day. i used to get to loan something new. Do something and get back to my work. Since i was working i didn't take any holidays year. Investing thing i would like to mention. Maybe i don't know if this will create something but i cook many calls from the carbonaro. A many people know even the artists famous. So i used to go for the rt..
Everyday Talkies
"himalayas" Discussed on Everyday Talkies
"The pinewood and the basically the awkward so pinewood is useless and the government in the name of the greek government planted basically the british government planted and our government Kept the tradition going. Instead of the old candid they've they planted the pinewood and is not useful in because it gets burdened very quickly and if us doubt on the heat would for cooking purposes are even for the generate heat. You'll get the cold and you can keep the calls to get the next morning started. Whatever you have. Iran have to start all over again so these are the small things i learned in between them. So i and because of the issues. I learned that if you use the data teakwood not define would. I wasn't for six seven days and from be part. Let's move to a place called casado. Casado is the place where the mystical experiences of the thing. I honestly well-known the basically be a type and it was a part of a movement as well I lived in hostile there for six days. Kasai debbie's through. It's basically eight kilometers from amora but it's based on a ridge so you have like the palley down on the board sides and from the one side of the valley you get to view almost seventy degree view of himalayas. See you you see. Reassure you see you can see dot and dot potently specially the so you get to see like a huge number of himalayan peaks from a single place. So that's a very beautiful place to go to one just to stay there. Basically you'd get your laptop this again. I went back to the more. The work vacation Five the hostile. I was living in. It's called hot hostile and They have a good hundred bs. Line fiber connection. And i was walking from the so every day. I wake up. Get by things done Let's go with the coffee and get on small tiger and at one o'clock or something. I used to start work. Because i work in the second shift so that's how it to start working and it turned out beautifully. Because you're looking at the himalayas. I used to make people jealous. Basically i think if you look at some of my voters people will like okay. This is not good. This is everyday sustained some places. And i used to get a better view of himalayas. I don't my laptop. There used to start work from started working from that okay. I'll start working from here. I start working from their post. They're very expedience than they're just great like i met some wonderful people There is a person called baba's cafe basically so that guy was baba basically back in the day and he met a gentleman woman somewhere in himalayas. So they got married. This became back to the cause side. They started the cafe. They have some of bakery products of european and indian beckley products. I don't remember all but they have other delicacies. You can have then. There is another guy. I met key was basically a retired fashion stylist baby. Either i remember..
Everyday Talkies
"himalayas" Discussed on Everyday Talkies
"You're to look after them. That's how the structure is basically so. The interaction remains constant. Like take something from the jungles. And you take care of them as well so they give you something you give them the safety in return. That's how the interaction wasn't it was going until the government step in recent times they had issues with no go because of the government made the jungle these jungles into reserve for this by law. It's illegal to take anything from the jungles basically in many of these people depend on the jimbo's their livelihoods depend on the jim. Because you take the woods and everything. I understand that important as presenting niches. And i'm all for that but obviously you depending on the locality. Is you taken some items. Somebody's because you're that is how you go there right but the idea that culture came up with that you have to provide better than each and every day would you are planting more trees and that seems an awesome way because that way the forest will keep on growing. Keep up providing you so it doesn't by relationship but we're both benefit so the idea making it at his off hottest but not using any fits benefit and not growing more. Crops defeats the purpose right. This martin were getting something back and giving something but what for hundreds of years. That's the government. Is that in saying illegal to take something from jungles. And that's not good because when i was There is a place in one charity. Basically the valley they The hot water springs and the vendor and we were just bathing panel discussing with obey again interacting with people. Because that's what we like like. What are your stories what you're doing and many people were icon from village which is like who is your from here or journey from harare overnight. Run out hike from your because even a getting something. The livelihood is solve not so battle even getting the from the general are if we are not allowed to get the from the jungle. You are not a privileged enough to the word and get the hot water going basically so you can't are basically bathe in hot water. That's why people use this hot water springs much more than they should be using it. I i don't know. I'm something properly but like that's the striking irony i saw. I can't imagine like there is no hard worker. There is a problem of hot water because there are so many things in what you have to get the word from the fall it is the after budnick to get the water or you can just go to the hot water springs and get get started. Basically you'll live this. I'm sure that they in itself You learn all of these things. So how did you manage us because since you know. These accusations came in late. So obviously must be difficult for you. Also do conductor daily livelihood takes up many. Because i was doing on the edge like not exactly in the forest but i didn't face any issues but the people i was living with telling me about all the issues i learned about the different words as we're like.
Everyday Talkies
"himalayas" Discussed on Everyday Talkies
"I've heard from unisource offense which i did. They went to resorts. Are they went into this small places nearby. And they've worked there. I have some events. Will you distracted from. And the book resort book a few days to work just to get out of the but again. Just working maybe. It's some kind of relaxation. I can understand that but the kind of life that you let in those days when you right between each other with people you were learning that you are enjoying as you were looking very quiet. This brings different concept of the location. So tell us when you reach was started. Beaks what happened up. There is a great historian between the the whole journey. So i was going to win saturday. i i was in a reality. When of my friend called me he wasn't gonna public mid very going said. I'm going to win sherry. There's like whereas it said it's two thousand kilometers away from cola. I haven't raised area is like tell me i'll come. I said bro. it's two thousand columbus of okay. He's like you. Tell me you just flat and i will come. I said okay. Gotcha plane from here to here. Get out from hawaii To any taxi guy who sorry long story short. He was there after two days. Well you have some very good friends who take impetuses. Take your biggest. His name was right now. He's selling in somewhere. I think he just left. Iran is going to australia basically. He's a sailor. So i think that was a bit normal for him. I don't know doing kind of journalists he reached and then we started planning different things in wounds saturday vision. Like what can we do so rag for a bit There is a place copper. The sixteen kilometers strike. Normally people do it in days. People tend to mundane visit in one. Bill you climb from twenty three hundred meters to thirty seven hundred meters. That's eight kilometers. And you just done back in the day we did that. We visited a place called mani again. A different story. Like i love story so i just went on with people. Interacting them There is a woman called me kaji. She's a starting point and she's been living there for thirty years and she works with the people rural empowerment women empowerment and. She started this journey as would have gone the homestay village so she got some ten to women from the religion she said why not create a homestay. This makes sense in the story because the sun will leave. Your home stays That's the model for the home. Stays where i stayed the bus. Odi homes are based on the martin. So i wanted to meet the person when i got to know that. This is the person so i went ahead and i had a great interaction with all the woman. I attempted attempted their grounds aleka. What they discuss. How discuss the giant ripping issues with a gunman interactions with basically. There is something one hundred i. I'm i think i'm not boring you with really saw yeah so that is basically a one. That's exclusive to that are considered that game. Back into effect into nineteen twenties of bend. The british government was the so They had different laws like nominee around has lost but they have different when. You're impacting with the jungles. So if you take something from this angle to give it back if you're using maybe a three from general to build your house or do something you have to get two or three smaller trees going. You have to plan them..
Everyday Talkies
"himalayas" Discussed on Everyday Talkies
"Because you under you basically you estimate distances when you are on the planes or when you're on highways through if he does yeah we can do it in one day so in the mountains. That's not possible. Spirits have like the thirty kilometers jernigan. One two maybe three hours you know. I couldn't make it boom saturday that day. I up to halfway that. There is a place called reality ben. Basically the place named after ben basically there is a u. shaped tone and there is another road that comes to meet from the ordering so the three roads meet. That's how the place called the band. Basically the yuban. That's how the quality. That's where i stayed for one night and There is a place near or show. Cory sorta could use the next big thing or it's an upcoming his station. In notre karnataka's our government is actively looking because when the toronto airport becomes completely operational. You can just go to petrograd and gabbard bus from there to joe. Corey and joe has beautiful of looks for the peaks and the biggest issue. Lend extra from there I travel to pull basically from Not burr taxi. And i think i started on eat o'clock and the distance of ordinary twenty kilometers. I reached in the evening. Basically four o'clock in the evening afternoon because in the winter's evenings happen at four o'clock and at five o'clock it's pitch black because of the mountains and who you up north. You are so interesting story. about muncie. i didn't lord this before i read that. There is a museum about this as well. People can visit tool. I'm seventy there was no road. Shady and the people were disconnected from india until seventy one wealth and these people that are basically so until six ward of these people used to deal with knee and event and most of the play.
Everyday Talkies
"himalayas" Discussed on Everyday Talkies
"No didn't your office have any problem that you are traveling on the road. Traveling and working didn't have any interest. Even i don't know It's actually need to know basis so people knew and and If somebody asked me. I repel them and if the information is not needed to that people in the work is getting the fine with so. I don't know how many how many people in my office. No i wasn't able vacation for three days. This podcast reaches out to them and they'll get to the kind of thing that they would have to. Hopefully i definitely hope so. This village a briefly about the interesting part about this is because of economic conditions are not so good the mountain. Because you can't grow anything you don't have many of these posters the meant most of your incomes by the reason Maybe most of the people in condo working in the army because of this so this organization cpa a dp day stack this project. The possibilities that i reject the first village they contacted three of the women in the village and they asked if you can spare a room knocked roomba said but allowing people to let into your home. They're you and they will live with you. They'll have you had experiences. And that's what i did. I actually had a great conversation with them. And i got lucky. Basically because when i was i didn't have anyone else living with them. I said i wanna live five days with each woman's family. So i'll get to know them. The culture better. I have different stories to tell the first one was a new ben. I i stayed with metaphor filed as she has a different story. she she was i think. V o six of pasta than she got married and like typical village story missed so she was afraid to converse with me or anything and basically notre kundi even face bit off language. They speak in the butter. The preferred language bindi again. Another expedience like not all the people speak in. After that she started opening up like her issues in the village as well and What other issues facing family got separated and that sort of stuff then. She used to cook different food. I started Loving the mottaki. Rotea and gillette was my favorite. She basically asked me. If you wanna have some fun stuff no. I said no. It's your food. Whatever you have it. I would have that for all the people and even if you go to tara and if you go to maui jim do us for punky techni. That's madonna's technique that the delicacies. There it's fight of their life. It's part of the culture. They eat it and you know disclaimer. It does not get you high. And that's a good disclaimer for everybody but still guys. Notre dame's mature a little. Gus but for the entire fifty two days. Did you stay in that same location visit. Mcdonald's and stayed with each identify. What's this how the case led to that not defense story so i stayed there for fifteen days..
Everyday Talkies
"himalayas" Discussed on Everyday Talkies
"Of everyday dot. I think foot the boston results have been listening to me. And puska talk about inability. Ucd's berkeley on confidence in st and started a new cds. Psychology where you got. I think some of the criminals psychologists and you'll hurt aboard from egypt. So with all of that i thought you know i didn't take a break and introduce you. Somebody whom you've already heard before if attention to all episodes but will be discussing mode about his life and what has been going on for the boss twenty because it's been very interesting dynamic jealous of what he's doing so good to know him. I have a low so for people who have forgotten who you are guys. Just go back with episode. Which i think released or don't early to see it on early. I don't i think. I think your bag because i think it's somewhere in delay that episode of the bum moon landing. I think that's above so that was a fifty four to the of man. Scores landing on celebrated back via had. I think i'm six seven guests. Mead was of them where of discusses.
Gastropod
The History of Cannabis
"Turns out we have geology to thank for cannabis. At least for cannabis's psychoactive properties. The ancient ancestors of the cannabis plant started growing tens of millions of years ago around. What is now central asia like pakistan northern india nepal. And then something dramatic happened the entire subcontinent. That is now. India drifted north crashed into asia. The crumple zone is what we now call. The himalayas and the cannabis plants that were growing in that zone. Got really really high and the ones that were stuck down low the plains near the himalayas. Well they didn't get quite so high is difference is both topographical and literal the cannabis. The grew in the mountainous region started producing thc. Which or the uninitiated is the chemical in cannabis. That gets you high. We don't know for certain. Why the plant produces it. It appears serve kind of sunscreen. Chris duval is a professor at the university of new mexico and author of two books on the topic. The african roots of marijuana and cannabis kris told us that the cannabis that stayed down low and temperate plains. Those plans did not produce. thc they became. What we know is hemp source of cloth rope and disgusting. Health foods cannabis grew really easily and a lot of different environments especially ones. We disturbed to build settlements. It was literally a weed. That's why we call it weed. And so there was probably a lot of cannabis just growing in central and east asia both the high mountainous regions and the low parts and so a really longtime ago as long as maybe twelve thousand years ago people figured out ways to use it. It appears for both populations. Initially people used it for the seeds which are edible You know you can buy them in. Eat them nowadays. Emcees are often founded natural food stores. Today they're full of wonderful nutrients but they taste terrible. And before you all right in and tell me i'm wrong. not only to. Cynthia agree with me. The historical record does to kris told us that in china hemp seeds were at one point considered a staple food but it was kind of slowly replaced as people in that region in china. You know kind of domesticated and started using other plants more calmly so types of militans organ kind of displaced at
KOA Programming
Aurora: Man Dead After Shooting at Police
"After an incident in which the man allegedly shot at police officers arrived at a home on South Jericho Street near Himalayas. Last night, A fight had occurred between two men there When police arrived, one man barricaded himself in the home's garage and fired shots at police. Nearby neighbors were evacuated and a shelter in place order given for those farther away. When it's watching entered the garage, they found the suspect dead. No officers were hurt. Flash flooding in
BTV Simulcast
Analyst: Didi's IPO Was a Disaster. Here's Why
"Calls the DD IPO a disaster with more on that and what China's crackdown means for more tech companies in his Edith Yeung of Race Capital is a China expert. And we're so glad to have you here because Once again dd feeling the pain share price. I mean, now, like 11 bucks well below where the IPO price was. And the question marks surrounding who knew? And when? Why was it such a disaster in your own minds? I Is such a disaster because there's a lot of rumors, speculation that maybe the founder and CEO both ignore about the request and the change and make sure that they need to comply with the data security and compliance before they go public. Regardless and there's a lot. This costs a lot of action lawsuit going on now, and there's a lot of hatred for the founders and also for the for the president, and it's just really unfortunate to see what's going on. Which in my mind, I think you know, companies send of really chilling effect for many, many Chinese companies that with the goal to get listed in In the U. S recently, including companies like Kid Keep, and Himalayas recently wanted to go IPO in the U. S. I heard that both call it off because of what's going on with the D. Link Doc as well, postponing its IPO. The ramifications there that is this to your mind's eye, Edith. What China wants. Does it want to prevent make it harder, more difficult for companies to go to the capital source that is the United States? I think you know what's really, really interesting to me is that in the past, a lot of people say data is the new oil data now really is the most important things in terms of infrastructure. I think China the most. Some of the most important Internet company of China, including Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent music are all listed in the U. S. Says over 248. Companies from China is listening to US. U. S stock market is really, really important to China and Chinese company. But having
PBS NewsHour
Dozens dead and many missing after glacier collapse in India
"Toll from a disaster in India's Himalayas rose to 26 today with 165 people missing. Glacier broke apart in the country's north on Sunday, sending a wall of water down a mountainside rescue teams work today to find more than three dozen workers trapped in a power plant tunnel. One man described the moment that the deluge hit That's a human eye witness something that looked like a scene from a Bollywood film about 50 to 100. People were running for their lives but could not be saved and they were engulfed by the river. Officials said. The potential causes of the disaster range from climate change to earthquakes
UN News
UN stands ready to support relief, in aftermath of deadly India flash floods
"Un secretary general antonio guitarist said that he's been deeply saddened at the loss of life inflicted by deadly flooding from glacier in the indian himalayas at the weekend at least fourteen people reportedly died and over one hundred and seventy missing after the tragedy in uttarakhand province on sunday which also fifteen people rescued. Initially the united nations stands ready to contribute to ongoing rescue and assistance efforts. Mister gutierrez said in a statement according to reports a torrent of water rock and debris from the glossy cascaded into communities living downstream also damaging damn blasio bursts and the flash floods that they cause are extremely destructive natural hazards the himalayan region particularly vulnerable to such disasters which have been made more likely by climate change and temperature rise
WTOP 24 Hour News
140 are missing after glacier breaks in India's Himalayas
"At least nine people are dead. 140 are missing in India after part of a glacier in the Himalayas broke off releasing a crush of water and debris that slammed into two hydro electric plants. Experts say the disaster today appears to be 2.2 global warming as cause video from India's northern states showed a muddy concrete glitch. Great flood waters tumbling through a valley surging into a damn breaking it into pieces with little resistance before roaring downstream. The disaster flooded the countryside with what looked like an ash colored
Reveal
Scores Are Feared Dead In India After Himalayan Glacier Breaks Away
"Massive search and rescue operation is underway in northern India after part of a Himalayan mountain glacier broke off and triggered landslides and flooding. NPR's Lauren Frayer reports at least 125 people are missing. It started when part of the Nanda Davey Glacier broke off. Blasting through a hydro electric dam. Video recorded by witnesses shows an avalanche of mud, water and debris rushing through a ravine in India's Tera con state. Many of those missing are believed to be workers at that Damn, one local resident says. It happened so fast. There was no time to alert anyone. The military has been called in to help villages are being evacuated downstream. Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that he's praying for everyone's safety. This is an area of the Himalayas, where environmental experts have cautioned against building such dams and
America First
Nepali team first to top world's 2nd tallest peak in winter
"Paul that comes first to top the world's second tallest peak and winner. Pakistan's Alpine club, says the team of 10 Nepalese climbers made history scaling the world's second highest peak Que Tu in the winter season, reaching the summit late Saturday afternoon. Renowned mountain stands at 28,251 ft and has never been scaled in the winter before where winds can blow more than 125 miles an hour and temperatures can drop to minus 76 F. Que Tu is located in Pakistan's Cara Coram range along the Chinese border that leads into the Himalayas.
Earth Rangers
Red Knots (?!) and Science with Spinach
"Hello and welcome to earth rangers podcast. I'm ruth ranger. Emma and i hope you scurry ready because today we're going to learn all about not free a hearty yes. I am a few different pieces of rope here. And i've been practicing all morning. Oh hands on deck scalawags. Are you ready to learn about knots. Old is gonna get your shipshape. The no time. Shogo nods radna acknowledgments. Big nods overhand. Handmaid's the anchor hitched. The these not. Oh that kind of red. Not oh well you know that makes a lot more sense as an episode topic. Do i know what a red nod is Ya i certainly do. I mean the real question is do our listeners. Know what a red not is. It's a type of bird right right. Hey let's see what else you know about this creature. It's time to false or fall off. Okay earth rangers. Here's one for the experts out there. Sure false red knots born in brazil and they are so into their habitat that they never fly further away than five kilometers from their nests. What do you think Well if you said fulls you're right. The red not in fact born in the arctic this colorful hand piper is a striking bird with terra. Cotta orange gold and black feathers. Retinoid start their lives. Eggs and nests building. Rocky creeks old mother and father. Birds incubate their eggs for about three weeks and after the chicks are able to fly. The family moves to lake shores and meadows to eat a lot bigger a really long trip ahead of them and they need to fill up before they leave the prefer seafood. Mussels clams shrimp ben horseshoe. Crab legs are all favorites. After they're all fueled up right not out on an long journey set up to fifteen thousand kilometer. These spend the winter in south america before heading back to their northern home. Now right not. Aren't the only birds that migrate a really long way. In fact there are lots of birds that can make a terrifically long trip. You i think this calls for a top five countdown top five migrating birds number five. Have you ever wanted to fly. High like really high. If that sounds like your idea of good time you'd love being a bar headed goose. They're the highest flying migratory birds. How can they find over eight kilometers in the air. These birds are native to asia and have even been known to fly over the himalayas number. Four we could hardly have a top five list with that. Our old friend the red nine when the red not goes on. Its epic flight. It needs to stop over to rest. And where do they stop. A one of the places is here to san antonio a protected area in argentina earth rangers is working with the international conservation fund of canada and the argentinian researcher patricia gonzalez to keep this area safe from human interference number. Three have you ever heard of a northern we talk. It's a strange name for a tiny songbird with a really cool ability. These little songbirds are only about sixteen centimeters long and only way about twenty five gramps but despite their diminutive size they can fly for over fourteen thousand kilometers each way between the arctic and africa huckabee long distance traveler number two. Just because they can't fly doesn't mean they don't travel heavily. Penguins travel all around and up to thirteen thousand kilometers. These adorable penguins. Follow the sun north from the ross sea and stick close to the edge of the ice of expanse so the easy access to their favorite fishing foods and finally number one. Okay what if i told you that. There's a bird that makes eighty thousand kilometer trip every single year meet. The arctic tern heard the bird with the world's longest migration all the way from the arctic to the antibiotic and back again an arctic tern. Does this trip every year. For thirty years they will have flown equivalent of three trips to the moon and back
The $100 MBA Show
Should I get interns to work for my startup?
"Interns are often college grads or even college students looking to get experience so they can put in their resumes and put it in there and be able to get a job eventually sometimes interns do so well at the company they are interning at and they actually got a job there so on the surface a lot of people think. Oh this is a great idea. Because i don't have to pay them or maybe have to pay them very little. And i get people that are hungry. I give people energetic that. Come here and helped my business grow. But many people forget many different aspects of bringing on interns to your company first of all the reason why is because they have no experience in and sometimes they don't have many skills so you're not getting the best talent to work on your company okay. So you're actually getting somebody who's learning on the job now. Some interns will come with skills. They learned Before they went to university or maybe it's their interests maybe they like web development and this is something that they do on the side and they can in turn as a web developer for your company but even somebody like that is not gonna be skill wise and experience wise as good as somebody who you would hire an pay them a salary because they will get what they deserve and they'll give you deserve that salary right so just keep that in mind. Okay so my personal opinion when it comes to hiring interns that the nature of an intern is. They're looking for a brief stint somewhere to learn. some skills gained some experiences in my experience and from the experience of the different Entrepreneurs i've coached and helped along the way a small fraction of actually stay in becoming police in the company. They're looking usually for six months to year of experience and in my experience it takes about three months to ramp anybody. Noon your business to Get them used to your culture to train them so they know exactly what to do and how to do and how to fulfil their job role and it takes even longer for interns because hey they're not coming with any experience or they're not coming With any job experience in your realm. So they're gonna take a little bit more time to ramp up so if they're around for six months experience You really only gonna get three solid months outta them before they move on and you invested a lot of time effort. Somebody's got train them. Somebody's got to show them how to do the job. The show them had a perform well and then they leave. One of the biggest costs and business is turnover employee turnover. You want to keep your as long as possible because it's costly to find new talent to hire new talent and train them. You want to keep people for at least two to three years to get the most value out of him. Anything over that is gravy and it'd be awesome. You can keep them for longer but anything under two years really. You're losing a lot of money and time and effort in training hiring and all that stuff. So that's even more true with an intern now. I know that you're not paying them paying them very little. But again the expectation that you have in terms of put from an intern is much lower from the new employee. That has you know. Keep your eyes and it's going to be held accountable and all that kind of stuff now. Cows in the tech space. You need to grow you need to sprint unique to really Get moving fast in your business and get your product out there so you can't be wasting time on turnover on entrance leaving on people coming and going in and does affect the culture when you have new. Employees renew teammates every so often you wanna have a core group of people that are in the team and of course people were leaving. Come and go. But not the ray of an intern now. There is an exception. If you're going to be doing something that's more of an investment in your business They you can keep after they leave. Let's say they are Documenting standing operating procedures or. Sap's how do you do everything in your business. The documenting your systems in your play books so that when you do make a higher that can just pick up the playbook and know exactly how to fulfil every task. Another example is content there writing content like blog posts. If they're good writers than those posts will stand the test of time. And we'll serve your business while after they leave but in my experience if they are a good writer if they are good writer and the running amazing blog posts they can get paid for it. They freelance and they will in turn says a bit of a difficult situation. Of course you find great talented people and train them and then leads me to my next point if you wanna take on interns and you found great talent. That is willing to intern for a company then stipulate that they have to be an intern for a period of time. I would say at least twelve months now. In my opinion you should compensate them in some way. Even if it's minimum wage but compensation matters. Okay giving them money for their time now that you invested a year. Also stipulate that you'll they'll have an evaluation at the end of the year and they'll be offered a position if they pass the evaluation this gives them some sort of upward. Mobility gives them something to shoot for. Okay i like working here. I like the work. I'm doing here. I'm learning a lot. I wonder how much i can learn if i was a full time employee. So if you have a path for them it makes it a whole lot easier for you to sell the idea of graduating into becoming an employee and hey starting your career at this company get a few years under bill and then move on to greener pastures. I got more on today's guinea wednesday's episode before that let me give to today sponsor support for today show comes from start your first online business might all new ten part audio course on himalayan learning this is of course is going to get you from one. That's gonna get you from thinking about your business to actually launching that business getting it out of your head and into the real world. Recover things like validating your idea creating your first product pricing it marketing finance in your business even creating your business website and more check it out and himalayas deep calm. Nba and use code nba to get a fourteen day free trial again. That's himalayas dot com slash. Nba promo code nba updates cuny wednesdays question from cow. Should i hire interns for my startup. This was a tough one for me to deliver. But it's the truth if you're in the tech space cal. You need to grow fast quick. You can't afford having to train. And retrain retrain intern so if you need content if any procedures lock them into year with You know A chance to become a fulltime police. They pass evaluation. If that's not an option. Just keep moving forward. Do not worry about hiring interns. See if you can hire one experienced player on your team won. Experienced player can equal five inexperienced people or ten interns. I'm serious. I've had in police on my taint team. I have employees on my team that are gold. They are worth You know five or six hires. And they're expensive okay so You go you pay for but sometimes you actually save money by hiring somebody. That's worth their value again. This is my personal opinion. This is my personal advice. From my own experiences experience of the people i've coached the build their own businesses and and the stories i've seen with the soon as i've seen at one hundred dollars i wish you all the best cow with your startup goal. Get them that wraps up. Today's episode. thank you so much for listening. If you have a question you want ask is just email me over at omar at one zero zero mba dot net. And i will make sure answer right here on kuni wednesday. Don't forget a hit. That subscribe gun on whatever app. You used to listen to podcasts. Spotify or situa radio for apple podcasts. Were on every platform. It's absolutely free to hit. Subscribe to do that right now before we go. I want to leave you with this. When the stakes are low the result is not something really special. This just in general life. If i'm in a position or a job or whatever where you know it's not a big deal fired. It's not a big deal. If i lose his job. You know. there's less pressure for me to perform. This is just human nature okay. Not everybody's going act this way but in general people will okay if you wanna use a rule of thumb but if the stakes are high and they really wanna stay there and they really think this is a good position. They're getting paid in there They don't wanna lose this job. They're going to have incentive to keep it. It's really hard to fight human nature so keep that in. Mind when you're making decisions like this.
Up First
Trump plans to withdraw thousands of troops from Iraq, Afghanistan before leaving office
"American troops are coming home. President trump said so yesterday. He promised to withdraw. Us troops from afghanistan as well as a rock and himalaya in the next couple of months. That is all the time that he has left. The outgoing president leaves office in exactly sixty four days. Noon january twentieth. Two thousand twenty one under his orders the troop presence in iraq would drop a little and in afghanistan by lot from forty five hundred twenty five hundred now. Trump is often promised to bring troops home but his move here drew criticism from a powerful ally. Senate majority leader mitch. Mcconnell are retreat would embolden the taliban especially the deadly connie wing and risked plunging afghan women and girls back into what they experience back in the nineteen ninety s. What had weakened and scattered al-qaeda a big do propaganda victory and renewed safe haven for plotting attacks against america. So how does all this look from the region. Npr's hadeed is based in islamabad. She's on the line. good morning. good morning so the. Us had already pledged to withdraw its forces from afghanistan by this spring. This came a promise under an agreement. It signed with the taliban course. The afghan government was not party to that agreement but what are afghan government officials saying now about this accelerated. Us time line for withdrawal. Well actually that we're expecting it because it's something fat. President trump has long signalled most recently last week when he pointed a senior adviser to the pentagon who calls for an immediate withdrawal at this point. They're actually eyeing the military equipment that american forces might leave behind As they rush to the exit. But there's also a sense of anger. I spoke to a senior official javard face all and he told me this poems. Do not want the to stay here. Whatever we one we draw to be responsible one and we don't expect our ally to burn. The house wants it leaves. They don't expect their ally to burn down the house as they leave. They worried a hasty withdrawal emboldened the taliban because it would signal to them that they don't have to abide by commitments for foreign forces to go echoing. Quite what mitch. Mcconnell said well is the talamante doing that are the upholding the commitments they made when it signed this agreement with the trump administration yes annoy the taliban are abiding by two key commitments. They're not attacking foreign forces and they are engaging in peace talks with the afghan government even though they've been at a stalemate since they begun but it's understood that the taliban also promised to reduce their violence but in reality they've stepped up their attacks against security forces across the country and they believed to be behind a series of unclear murders. Most recently they may have killed an afghan journalist in helmand. What are ordinary afghans citizens telling you educated afghans appear to be worried especially women they worry withdrawal will allow the taliban to seize power and that their rights might be swept away others. Tie it like a nurse. i spoke to a merger. Larry ellison's the fighting getting worse. So maybe it doesn't matter if they stay ago.
Environment: NPR
The Dalai Lama Offers A Warning On Climate Change
"Tibet's spiritual leader. The dalai lama is eighty five and he wants to warn us about something. I talked to him recently. He was at his home in dharamsala india wearing his red and orange robes sitting in front of the big tv screen so across continents. We could see each other. Hello your holiness. our you thank you. Thank you for being here this. He's just written a book about climate. Change called our only home. Well 'cause this planet is only a home now information. I hurt on moon. Also some water but try to settle their impossible so doubtful. Now we have to take care of our own planet. Logical trees are sacred in buddhism. They sheltered buddha his birth his enlightenment and his death and the mountains the himalayas whose backdrop the dalai lama lives there. Glaciers are melting and billions of people in china and india depend on them for water. I asked him what's one step any ordinary person could take and he said we eat a lot of meat. Not only question of the censo- low these animal itself. You civility bent for ecology so invest too. Much eat meat. Of course we also a nonvege- stadion so the be pham. Ideally feels very uncomfortable. Laws double and only four foot. We should promote vegetarians as much as two he can. He doesn't see the world in terms of countries and he wishes we wouldn't either. Our mother earth he says is teaching us a lesson in universal responsibility and so he'd probably be pleased that president elect joe biden has promised to re enter the paris climate accord three years ago. When the trump administration withdrew from that agreement. The dalai lama was stunned. When i heard that if you really said you see i did some mistake. Designed from the beginning then the president of america. He mentioned a miracle. I i feel disagreement. America the leading nation of free world so america if she should tink not just america first america have greater potentially making contribution for happier world. Some of this might seem so urgent because he's not young anymore. He's aware of this. It's been on his mind in buddhist tradition. He would pick the next doll. I lama and then reincarnate into that body but china also wants to pick the leader. China of course occupies tibet and so he wonders whether a dalai lama is necessary at the time of death to buddhist leaders should have is a serious discussion. Better though is you should continue or not if country you then individual tradition dissimilarity is some leader not why nation but the airedale one. Good scholar could practitioner. Is it become the head. So that's not wind business. My business could take care myself. Yes indeed your holiness. Thank you for taking the time to do this. I really appreciate it. thank you take. Good care bye-bye tibet spiritual leader. The dalai lama speaking to us from dharamsala
Pray the Word with David Platt
Kingship Belongs to the Lord (Psalm 22:27-28)
"So we're GONNA. Start. Today with Psalm Twenty Two verses twenty seven and twenty eight. This is the word of God. All the ends of the Earth shall remember and turn to the Lord. And all the families of the nation's shall worship before you. For kingship belongs to the Lord and he rules over the nations. I remember vividly reading this chapter, these verses. On. The. Side of a mountain in the Himalayas. In the middle of unreached people's. Attention. Groups in a nation where there is so little access to the Gospel. And getting to verse twenty seven and just. Falling on my face on that mountainside as we see this promise, all the ends of the Earth shall remember and turn it a Lord and all the families of the nation. So worship for you to pray for all nations. To know Jesus as. And then to read Verse Twenty Eight for Kingship. So here's the declaration kingship belongs to the Lord and he rules over the nations. So as we think about a presidential election electing someone to lead a country, it is so good to know that. The ultimate? King. The sovereign ruler is not up for election. He rains today, he will reign a month from now he will reign a year from now and ten trillion years from now he'll still be raining and he is good. He is the Lord. He is perfect. His holy he is just he is righteous. He is loving. He is a merciful. So. Let this song lead us to praise God as the king over. Any nation wherein and specifically for those of us who are living United States kingship belongs to the Lord God praise you as King Overall Genesis, we praise you as Lord Overall, all authority in Heaven and on Earth belongs to you. And one day every knee will bow and every tongue confess that you are lord to the glory of God, the Father we exalt you are king, Our Lord, our ruler, the one who reigns over our lives, and this is where our hope is. Oh God. We put all our hope in you all our trust in you know who's going to get elected. We don't put our hope trust and who's going to get elected as the leader of our country. We trust in you as the leader of all things not just our country, the leader of our lives. Later of our families, the leader of the Church leader of the nation's we praise you and re you that you are the leader we need. New perfectly just. You're perfectly righteous. You Are Holy Holy Holy. You know world country of very imperfect. Candidates and imperfect leaders. There is no one compares with you Oh God. There is no one who compares with you Jesus in we are so thankful we find such refuge in your rain and your rule over all things we praise you that kingship belongs to you and you rule over the nation's you rule our nation gallery pray. I pray that you would bring many people. To, know you as king even during these days, you'd help us to proclaim you as king to have far more conversations during these days about you as the king we need. Then even the conversations we're having about who might vote for. God We. Pray the help us to point to you as king. We pray for that in the United. States we pray for that among all nations go re pray for the Aroma Gary People in Kenya. This molly people group about a million people. In Kenya got so few of them just a handful of them who may be followers Jesus God we pray that they would come to know Jesus is king. You would cause the gospel to spread to them. Oh God we praise you. GotTa help is to Make Your glory as king known in our nation in all nations as we pray like you taught us to pray Jesus our Father in heaven. Hallowed, be your name. Your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven we praise you king. Over our nation and Omniscience in Jesus name we pray.
10% Happier with Dan Harris
Dr. Abigail Marsh on changing your relationship with fear
"Hey guys. There is sadly no shortage of fear these days fear of the virus. Climate change racial injustice, political ties. I could go on, but here's the question. Can you change the way your brain reacts to fear. Moreover can you train courage Abigail Marsh says, yes overcoming fear is a trainable skill. She's an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and the interdisciplinary neuroscience program at Georgetown University. She's also the author of the book fear factor how one emotion connects altruistic. Paths and everyone in between. This is in my opinion, a classic T. P. H. podcast conversation and Ace scientist whose area of expertise illuminates key aspects of the human condition I really enjoyed this. Hope you will to go. Abigail Marsh. Nice to meet you. Thanks for doing this. Absolutely it's a pleasure. So how did you get interested in fear? That's a great question. So my initial interest in social psychology, which is the discipline I have my degree in was because I'm interested in facial expressions and nonverbal communication in general, but how people communicate with one another And a little research had been done over the years about why facial expressions look the way they do. And I find that a particular interesting topic because they do look remarkably consistent across cultures, which just said there's something evolved and at least partly eight about them. And that's really amazing. Right I mean. It's one of the key piece of evidence that broke the back of radical behaviorisms decades ago. That emotional expressions are interpreted across cultures. It must be really important of that's true. and. Some people had spent a lot of time looking at. The reason that angry expressions look a particular way or happy expressions but nobody touched fear fear such fundamental emotion. It seems really important to know why we would communicate to each other and how people interpret it in other people. And it really was a flash bulb moment it was based on the combination of courses I was taking as Undergrad where it occurred to me that the reason that fearful expressions look the way they do is to elicit support and care from people who see them because they mimic the appearance of infantile face. Big Is. High Big is the very surrounded appearance lower face and they make you look infantile and that. Particular connection can help us understand so much about our nature as a social species what emotions are for what kinds of social behavior we can expect from other people around us that one observation really has a lot of implications. So I was kind of expecting you to say that you had some lifelong struggle with fear. But in fact, it sounds more like a academic interests well. I mean, you know the saying research is research I'm sure I mean I wouldn't have had lifelong struggle with fear but I would sam probably above average in terms of capacity for anxiety and I've certainly had experiences where I was frightened for my life. and. Had the good fortune to be helped by other people around me and so I'm one hundred percent certain that that made me interested in this topic to begin with. Are those things you're comfortable discussing Oh sure I. Mean it's not only one thing but certainly, the most important relevant event is the event that happened when I was nineteen when I was in a car accident on a big freeway in Washington state interstate five. And as I was driving over a bridge to get back to my hometown late at night. I swerved to avoid a little dog that ran in front of my car and the combination of swerving unfortunately hitting the anyways semi car into these fish tails and eventually donuts across the freeway. And wound up stranded in the fast lane of the freeway on the overpass with no way of escaping a no phone and cars and semis winning by me so fast, they were making my car shake. I was sure I'm GonNa die I mean I was one of those things you know they tell you time slows down when you're feeling intense fear. That's true. I know why I didn't know I then four and I really didn't know what to do. I was going to die tell stranger appeared next to my car having as I later figured out run across the freeway again in the dark to rescue somebody never met before. Key got my car. He figured out why? I. Couldn't get my car back on he threatened his way through the barrage of oncoming traffic to get us back across the freeway and then he just disappeared. He's like you know do you need me to follow you look so good I'm like, no no, all the okay. I'll be okay and he said Okay you carry yourself them an off. Into night I still to this day don't think. Thank you. I. Don't know anything about who he is and I know that. I owe Himalayas and really inexorably changed the way that I think about people and social behavior. Well, it's a dramatic story and actually connects to the thesis to the extent that I understand it of your book. Let me just repeat the title which I will have. Stated in the introduction the fear factor how one emotion connects altruism psychopaths and everyone in between. This is an example of extreme altruism that you just shared with us without a doubt He absolutely risked his life to save me. He deserved a medal for what he did at the very least. And what's so interesting about people like him as there is a really common tendency to assume that people who have things to help others are fearless. You hear that board used all the time but the reference to heroes and. But my research has shown is that that's absolutely not true that actually there's a really much more interesting relationship between fear and courage and altruism. So, what is it? So what seems to be the case is that truly fearless people tend not to help other people. For example, people who were psychopathic are one of the key features of psychopathy is a fearless disposition as failure to respond to threats or punishments or the potential for harm. And certainly people who are psychopathic do dangerous things. But they're very unlikely to do heroic things because that requires picking up on the fact that somebody else's afraid if you are doing something heroic, you're usually saving somebody else from danger somebody else's afraid in you're acting to help them. And what seems to be the case if you don't experience fear strongly yourself, you also don't pick up on that emotion and other people you have trouble detecting while other people are feeling it. You certainly don't appreciate why that state is bad and why you'd want to alleviate it, and so you're very unlikely to do anything to help when other people are afraid and so people. who were very altruistic turned out to be the opposite. They're people who are acutely aware of what it means to be afraid, and so they can empathize with that state and other people and when they encounter people who are in extreme distress, they're much more likely to help and so rather than being fearless, they're truly brave. They have courage which virtue whereas fearlessness is really not