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AP News Radio
Imprisoned Egyptian activist calls off hunger strike
"The family of the imprisoned Egyptian activist Allah Abdel Fattah says they received a letter from him The family says in a statement that Abdel Fattah's mother Leila swift received a short note from the political activist via the prison authorities in her son's handwriting saying his cooled off his hunger strike The letters dated as being written on Monday The news comes a day after the renowned dissident announced the end of his water strike via a similar handwritten letter delivered to the family I'm Charles De Ledesma
WNYC 93.9 FM
"leila back" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Nantucket several of the main downtown roads were covered in a foot of seawater There were videos where it's really hard to tell where the ocean ends and roads began in front of the local movie theater And at one point a group of high school students were even paddling the streets in a canoe So what about for people who live really close to the ocean They must be concerned about the long-term impact of storms like this one on their homes Oh absolutely Beyond flooding beach erosion is a really big problem for a number of those homes And a lot of attention right now is specifically on the sand dunes across the region because they're incredible They provide this service to the coast every time big waves come they act like this cushion but the problem comes when people build their homes on top of the dunes because they're eroding Also So in this one town called sandwich there are several dozen homes built on top of a dune And we don't yet know exactly how much erosion the storm caused but a state official who monitors coastal damage told me the dune has definitely changed Before the storm there's this kind of healthy slope down to the beach below Now it's a steep 8 foot drop And sandwich isn't alone There are other towns across the region where you can clearly see this storm has damaged the dunes Okay so given that what's top of mind for officials in these towns is to start to think about the reality of climate change there are likely more severe storms like this one in the future Absolutely I think that preparation is key for coastal towns generally one sandwich town official named Dave de canto said he's focused on cleaning up what's just come through of course but his mind is also on potential storms of 2023 already It's a long-term process and the planning has to go so far ahead We should be planning for storms now for next winter Storms like this underscore that sea level rise more frequent and intense storms all these impacts of climate change are forcing some in these towns to ask whether we need to rethink where we're building and perhaps whether we need to retreat altogether in some areas Eve took off with member station W C AI Thank you eve Thank you Leila Back in 2021 long before Russian troops began massing on the borders of Ukraine Russian president president Vladimir Putin published a long and rambling essay His writing referred to centuries of history and he argued that Russians and Ukrainians are essentially the same people He also suggested that the Ukrainians did not deserve to keep their current borders Putin was at least correct that Russians and Ukrainians share a lot of history but Ukrainians have a very different view of the past And Pierre's Greg myrie reports Ukraine was the breadbasket of the Soviet Union in the 1930s when Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin sees the rich fertile land from the local farmers They were forced into a collectivized state run agricultural system So these farmers had something that the Soviet Union considered to be too much and oftentimes this was something like they had a cow or a little bit of land It didn't mean that they were rich John shutter is a fulbright scholar He's been in Ukraine studying this period for his doctorate in history at Michigan state They are working in the fields and they are producing everything for the state and the state is giving them really nothing to eat The result one of the worst famines of the 20th century Between three and 5 million people died Survivors protested in rebelled for the next 20 years They were crushed but those events still resonate with Ukrainians when they talk about today's crisis And Ukrainians and especially the ones I talked to it comes up often It's a point of reference Well look what happened to my grandmother in 1932 33 or look what happened to my family I reached John shutter as he was reluctantly packing to leave Ukraine for neighboring Poland due to the threat of a Russian invasion The U.S. State Department told him to leave he's unsure when he might return When the Soviet Union was falling apart back in 1991 Ukraine held a referendum on independence A whopping 92% voted in favor Accelerating the collapse of the Soviet Union Professor Sergey plucky heads the Ukrainian research institute at Harvard He said some were surprised by that lopsided vote he wasn't That was the 5th attempt in Ukraine to declare and maintain independence in the 20th century Just last month Ukraine marked 30 years of independence but ploy says The sad irony of the situation is that we see Ukraine under attack Ukraine's independence has been rocky plagued by weak governments rampant corruption and a feeble economy Putin has made it even harder by repeatedly meddling in Ukrainian politics seeking to keep pro Russian leaders in power In 2004 Ukrainians pushed back with massive protests The so called orange revolution In a decade later in 2014 another round of demonstrations sent the country's president fleeing to Russia Putin has been a serial bungler when it comes to Ukraine Andrew Weiss is with the Carnegie endowment for international peace He says Putin's moves in Ukraine have often produced the opposite of what he wanted He's reanimated the NATO alliance He's given Ukraine more national cohesion and a stronger national identity And frame that identity on an anti Russian trajectory When Putin lost out politically in Ukraine in 2014 he sent the Russian military to seize Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula Today he's massed more than a 100,000 troops near Ukraine's borders He claims he's not planning to invade but also says he doesn't consider Ukraine a real country Scholar sir he plucky says Putin should ask Ukrainians how they feel The answer of the Ukrainian people will be are Ukrainians We want to live in Ukraine And we want this nightmare to end For now they're waiting for Putin's next move.
The Mini-Break
Naomi Osaka Weighs Another Break From Tennis After US Open Loss
"Was just one of those days at the twenty twenty one. Us open a day that featured sixteen round of thirty two singles matches saw eight of those sixteen go the distance. Four on the side. Four on the women's side. Want to break down all of that action on today's show. Of course the place will start. We are down a defending champion. Two time us open winner. Twenty twenty twenty eighteen ninety homeo- sokha your third seep here. At this year's event knocked off by uber talented eighteen year old canadian leila fernandez. I wanna talk about the mechanics of that match. I wanna talk about soccer comments after the match as well she indicated. She's not sure when she's going to next step on a tennis
Planet Money
Silver Medalist Raven Saunders Raises Hands in ‘X’ in Olympic Protest
"Became the first Tokyo Olympic athlete to defy rules against protesting on the medal podium. NPR's laid out Fadel reports Raven Saunders donned a silver medal around her neck and then raised her arms over her head in the shape of an ex. Later, Saunders explained that the X represented the intersection of where all people who are oppressed meet Saunders is an out and proud black woman and a fierce advocate for social justice on behalf of the community. She represents. She's captured the world's attention with her purple and green hair. Her ultra ego, the Hulk in her larger than life personality, protesting on the podium comes with the threat of sanctions by Olympic organizers. But there's growing opposition to the ban. Saunders later tweeted let them try and take this medal. Leila Fadel NPR
Morning Edition
A Lonely Olympics for Athletes Competing to Be Champions
"The Olympics are going to turn into a covid super spreader event. The city is under a state of emergency, and athletes say it all feels a little lonely. Here's NPR's Leila Fadel Emiliano Basso is a reserve field hockey goalkeeper from Argentina. He's in the hallway of his Tokyo hotel. This is where he's staying separated from his team in the Olympic Village. It's just him the reserve goalkeeper for the women's team and a couple Argentinian handball players. We took a bit it we don't have a more interactions. Between as they're confined to their rooms when they aren't at practice to limit possible infections. So this is his day, wake up in the morning and get very fast and it's inside the room. And they get taxi to go to a practice. Back to the hotel and get psyched to go to practice. I'm like silica gel and then the same. Well, today's you eat dinner were am dinner inside the room. So everything by yourself? Yes. Despite the difficulties, the separation from his team the 25 year old is ecstatic is fair Olympic. It's fantastic. Are you excited? Yes, yes, I'm really happy. When we finished chatting, he walks to his room with a Japanese newspaper and a translation app to keep him company for the night. Being an Olympic athlete this summer means little fanfare and lots of isolation. Foreign Spectators are banned. Japanese fans whose tax dollars largely paid for these games can go to events either Save a few venues outside Tokyo so athletes will see selfie videos of fans at their competitions. And here recorded sounds of cheers like this from the first U. S women's soccer match with Sweden this week. Echoed in a cavernous, empty stadium meant for tens of thousands of cheering supporters. When the sweets walked off the field winners, there was silence except for the applause of three team officials holding a Swedish flag.
Overdue
Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin
"Why don't you tell me about this book that you read. It was recommended to us by one of our patrons david. Thank you david who wrote in and said my favorite authors james baldwin. I'd love to hear your take on. Giovanni s room a book that spoke to me a lot about my own dissonance before coming out. Thanks in advance david. Ps do more james baldwin. He's incredible thank you. David sure So what we want to say about this book for. I keep talking because this is the intro part of the show where like the person the author and the context yeah Giovanni room is about this guy whose name also is david who is living in paris. France literally gay hurry interesting and he has he is. He has a serious relationship with a woman named hella who is who he is. Who is unnamed right. Now and she. She is away in spain and he is in france and mainly on the plane. No that's the rain. that's the rain in spain. It's not hella in spain in spain is mainly under an umbrella. Sure that's a good one umbrella song. I love that song on. Hella hella get through the pitch. Sorry i might have no no. I didn't by. David is in paris and he meets this This bartender named giovanni and he strikes up a passionate love affair with giovanni and things kind of go downhill from both for both of them from there. Because it is. I mean the. The novel came out in nineteen fifty six. I assume that the events of the booker happening roughly contemporaneous leila. There's nothing in there to suggest that it's happening any other way.
Fresh Air
Jury selection in trial of Derek Chauvin is set to begin after delay
"Former police officer whom prosecutors say pressed his knee on George Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes. The months since boy's death last Memorial Day video of the Black Man struggling to breathe while pin face down during an arrest has been viewed worldwide. As NPR's Leila Fadel reports. One of the biggest hurdles in this case will be seating an impartial jury. Despite the state's objections. Judge Peter Cahill is moving forward with jury selection today until he's told otherwise, he briefed jurors before the process began. Do not read about this case in the newspapers. We're online and do not listen to news about it on radio or television. The court expects it will take up to three weeks to seat a jury. The challenge will be finding jurors who don't already have strong opinions on the case. The video of George Floyd's killing reignited a movement against police brutality and systemic racism that spread around the world in advance. A call for jury duty was accompanied by a 14 page questionnaire. That included questions on race policing, the black lives matter movement and even podcast. Potential Jurors might listen to Layla Falzon. NPR NEWS Minneapolis The U. S House is expected to take up President Biden's nearly
Book Club with Julia and Victoria
"leila back" Discussed on Book Club with Julia and Victoria
"Want to get into his car but like it's because they a thing for each other the public about is elena's airtime is third wheels make. It seem okay. Chaperone the group now. Yeah he does okay. It's a rebounding group date. She says i'm scared. Leila leila's back. Do you remember how many things we've done that scared you. I waited for you on purpose. I feel like that tended to be meet. The more nervous scared one. But i like we're doing this day. Resonated with that. I'm qc how character being i haven't read the other one in my later adolescents and definitely into my dolph. It very much like became less afraid and more building. And like here's if she has a similar or different trajectory than in this novel very much relate to tell anna and as it moves forward i continued to look not relate to either them but in this lawyer member very strongly and i think that's what makes this so powerful and why so many women and people love it is very much represents that really intensely female friendships. You have coming up a look this person that you like bite with the don't get along with their best friend and i absolutely have that person persons like one of my favorite people in the world and yet we she's not like we all the look that intensity of the relationship that we had was always there many think of anything like i wish. Maybe i leaned into that relationship more kind of in the way that like even though we love sessile eleanor. She doesn't ever remove herself from it like she keeps digging into it like she knows. It's making her better kind of your point earlier. Like she knows leila's the one who should have been writing this book. She knows should have been successful like she knows that labels making her better so she keeps leaning into this relationship even when they fight. Yeah yeah i mean. I think the thing that was represented so incredibly well. The part of their relationships that i did relate to is kind of like the relationship between smart women who they're known for being smart and they're like At the top of their class or whatever and that kind of like a little uncomfortable sometimes the lake both be smart in different ways as you're yes you're competing with each other. That's yeah but also you're you're you're you're each other's best allies and but you're also there's this thing of like if you're like there can only be one way culturally right circle in the neighborhood. There can only be one smart one. They're gonna only be like assisted one successful one. Yeah only one of them can make it out so in. Some ways are competing against each other. And don't wanna be like so. Elena's jealous of layla all the time he was jealous l..
Data Skeptic
Leaderless Consensus
"Minus biology. And i'm a student in the system. Softer research group virginia tech. I'm broadly interested in building distributed systems. And i've been doing that since my master's and my phd degrees or the past five years. Broadly i focus on building reliable and high-performance distributed systems very specifically i work on this topic of consensus and agreement protocol van idress different properties of them such as scale ability and resiliency to fox previously also worked on addressing the performance aspects of certain taxes of consensus call the leaderless consensus protocol. Which i believe is the topic of today's discussion. Yeah could you draw that distinction. We've talked a little bit about paxos on some episodes but had a very leader paxos biased to that. I guess what does it look like to leaderless. Paxos the main reason you would want a leader in paxos protocol is because you won't agreement among a collection of processes it could be notes that are spread around in a wide area network or it could be in the same local area network and important a problem. The leader saws is the type of conflicts because if you allow anybody to propose values than they might not reach agreement quickly in fewer communication on. That is critical. So that is why classically a paxos protocols have been proposed the leader so that you can have domination in fewer communication steps decision can be made in. Let's say to communication steps. However what differentiates leader less paxos is that you remove the requirement for leader and introduce a different mechanism so that even without a leader. These different notes can agree on a same set of values that the agree and execute as part of their statement. Do we have to give anything up to go. Leaderless we lose eventual consistency or. Yeah what's the cost of this consistency vice. We are still able to get leaner is ability. We don't lose anything per se. But however the protocol itself gets more complex and more nuanced and subtle paxos itself is a complex protocol to understand dissect however these littlest protocol because of more addition to the original access protocol can get more complicated. You'd mentioned scale. Ability is one of the interesting things to study in these consensus protocols. Most of the papers and research. I did learning these things. We'll give me examples of like you know quorums of five or seven nodes. Which of course are great right. That's the way to learn it but in reality it's internet and cloud scale. Maybe we'd like to have orders of magnitude more nodes. What are some of the scale. Ability challenges you bump into down that path you mean. In terms of leila's protocols are in just in terms of consensus. For god's will either way maybe we can stick to your precise work or if you think it's valuable to contrast it with the more generic case that works to terms scale ability in the crush fault tolerant space before i get deep into cash phone torrens. Let me specify a little bit on the fault models themselves. So typically people work in the crash fault donald space if they're building consensus for a single organization use case data center use case fair people deeply into databases and stuff like that and the assumption in the crash. Fault tolerant space is that the machines can simply crush but they cannot behave maliciously in the sense that when they reach agreement they don't behave in a way as to deviate the consistency of the values. That is being agreed on. This is in contrast to the byzantine fault tolerant agreement problem which addresses a different set of use cases like permission blockchain allegations that require much more scale obliterated then that is required in the trash falter spaced typical even people talk about the fda talk about scale ability to fifty or hundred or more than hundred up to thousands soft notes but in crush on space. People typically talk scale ability up to five or seven notes and that is for very specific reason. And that is that consensus protocols. In general they tend to be very expensive in coordination and the performance tend to get much worse as you scale to higher number of notes and for blockchain applications. If you look at the absolute numbers the performance of the f. d. protocols for blockchain applications are much lower than safety protocols. The reason we stick to a few notes in the safety protocol is because they're not other mechanisms that use like shotting and stuff like that in order to achieve scale ability in a data center sitting.
Scene Of the Crime
"leila back" Discussed on Scene Of the Crime
"Nikolay somewhere. They were leila back Been prompt or tossed so that seemed very odd to me and the shoelaces were missing. So the shoelaces likely team from the shoes but it does make you wonder if you go somewhere to kill yourself and not have anything to do that with and think oh. I know. i'm going to unless my shoes and tie them into some knots and then strangled myself to me. All of that is very strange to her point. That is very strange. But i also think about you know if somebody else committed this murder. They had to also not bring anything to the crime scene to do it with decide to use her shoelaces and pull them out of the shoes. How did all of that actually transpire. That's kind of confusing. But it also makes me think that if this was a murder it would have been a crime of passion. It wasn't something where they had planned ahead of time to do this. But something that happened in the spur of the moment so they had to use whatever they had on hand. Well and there's been lots of proof with with killers in the past where they have just you know they go to the site and they you know they they intend to kill somebody like a predator and they use something that they find out the house or so. It's not totally surprising. But yeah. I mean again so many unanswered questions. It just makes you ask even more. I cube like well wait a second. Well wait a second. Just what do you think you figured one thing out and only leads to two more questions. Yes exactly and shan says that. It's it's definitely not a case that she would have thought i'd but she says on the flip side of that coin. Maybe this is a person who did this to hurt. You gonna go here an attacking hill someone in a very busy location in the middle of the day. It seems like he might bring something with you to do that. So how does it happen that you get a hold of someone. Get them in your control. Take off their shoes. Unleash all of their. She wasted tienanment and then put it around their neck and then strangled. I'm really struggling with that. I don't understand how that could happen so to me. That's very very interesting. Part about this palace got around her neck and why her shoelaces were used whether she killed herself or she didn't both ways that seems very strange to me and she agrees that the zipping of autumn best to the very tippy top is really hard to explain zipped up over to see putin see them. The back was of tangled into the shoelaces hard to unzip it so how when someone either for self or someone else string shoelaces. Agen have ready access to let i think. That's why the jackets important if she didn't know that killed herself. How does your jagged zipped of all the way and really more importantly how did she get in the water. That is very strange. We also unless there is some way that she got herself all Herself in the water and then strangler herself. I don't even know how one would do that. Wouldn't there be some water in her lungs if she did somehow managed to get herself into the water and strangled herself. Like wouldn't she have water in her lungs. And that's another problem so she didn't tell water in her lungs. The cause of death is a expectation. Not drowning no water in her lungs. From what i understand. So that would mean that. She didn't spurs swallow water as she was dying in the in the water so is she did strangle her own self in the water she.
Morning Edition
Why Black Officers Find Breach Of U.S. Capitol Particularly Upsetting
"Law enforcement officers were overpowered by that violent mob in the nation's capital. Last week. Disturbing videos show that police officers were kicked and punched and beaten with flagpoles. One police officer was killed and another later died by suicide off duty. But there were also a few police officers that appeared to sympathize with the mob. MPR's Leila Fadel reports that for current and retired black police officers It was particularly upsetting. Last week sharing Blackman Malloy watched her former colleagues try to stave off Attackers of the capital alone. Black officer heroically facing a largely white mob as they first breach the building. A lot of them felt like they were all all along black when Malloy is a retired U. S Capitol police officer and the vice president of the United States Black Capitol Police Association. Which led a class action lawsuit in 2012 against the Capitol police for alleged discrimination. She's also the lead plaintiff in the historic 2001 class action discrimination lawsuit against the Capitol Police board. Our organization is calling for criminal charges against the sergeant at arms of the House and the Senate, as well as the former U. S. Capitol police chief who resigned after the attack because they loved them unprepared. She spoken to black police officers that were at the Capitol that day. They're traumatized. Some of the crowd called him the n word. Some are injured. They're also scared because they saw a few of their white colleagues show sympathy with the mob. Several Capitol police officers were suspended as the department investigates the attack on Congress, among them the officer who took Selfies with writers and another who popped on a mag, a hat and directed Attackers around the building. Blackman. Malloy says black Capitol police officers told her this about inauguration Day and then now you expect me to go stand beside an officer not knowing whether or not he's one of one of the terrorists, that's what that's what we did. Then Maybe there were some off duty police officers from outside D. C in the crowd. Police departments are investigating, and that's not lost on so many police officers around the country, particularly black police officers who faced discrimination on the force. Carl Shaw sued the police division of the city of Columbus for racial discrimination and settled for $475,000. You have good police also said you have actually saucers, and in my case, if it wouldn't have been for white officers standing up and risking their careers, wouldn't have had a leg to stand on. I just think we need to change the way we police and the hiring practices. Also the settlement, which conceded no wrongdoing included to demand that the retaliation he faced for reporting racism by superior be a fireable offense. Char retires next month. If you're trading black officers this way, What are you doing to the general public? Heather Taylor, recently retired sergeant from the ST Louis Police Department was texting with other black officers as she watched the attack on Congress. She thought about many of our fellow officers who made the assumption that Trump flags meant support for law enforcement, even when the crowds were incited by the president's lies and included hate groups. Meanwhile, black lives matter. Protestors demanding racial justice were treated as hostile. I don't know maybe realize that these people who are extremists who are militia Who are a part of these groups or about civil war. They want civil war They want to do away with the government and law enforcement has hair to him. Taylor most recently headed the Ethical Society of Police, a ST Louis police organization that addresses racial discrimination in the police force and the community. Okay, well, they're gonna shake I'm going to say that these people are going to turn on them that the police are going to see that the same people that you supported over African Americans in black lives matter. You're going to see that it's different that they're going to turn on you. Sure enough, it was worse than what we could ever imagine. In Minneapolis Metro Transit Police chief Eddie Frizzell says he did more planning for the Super Bowl in Minneapolis than what he saw in the capital last week. Now he worries about the expected armed protests around the country. This weekend. I served in Bosnia bright after the war to orange n aside, had taken place and we've seen what tyrannical regime will do to a country in Iraq. And all those experiences are all coming to a head right now. It gives me a frame of reference to take my experiences, and we have to actually apply them to the unknown that we're experiencing right now known that we're experiencing right now. Leila Fadel NPR
Innovation Now
Leland Melvin's Journey From The NFL To NASA
"After playing college football. Leland melvin was drafted by the nfl when his football career as a wide receiver was cut short because of an injury leland pursued his passion for engineering while working at nasa a co worker gave him an astronaut application but leila didn't intend to be an astronaut so he didn't complete the form when the next round astronauts were being chosen. His friend once again handed him an application and leland was accepted into the program. During a spacewalk simulation melvin lost his hearing a small phone block that allows astronauts to clear. Their ears was missing from his training suit. It was two full years before he recovered enough to be considered for spaceflight. Yet leland went on to log nearly six hundred hours in space. Now retired from nasa leland encourages people to stay. Curious followed their passions. And never give up even when your dreams have you chasing
Morning Edition
Every 15 minutes someone in Los Angeles County dies from the coronavirus
"In Los Angeles County. Now someone dies of covert 19 every 15 minutes. Here's NPR's Leila Fadel. It took this county 9.5 months to reach 400,000 cases of covert 19. But in the last month that number has doubled to over 840,000 cases. L, A county supervisor Hilda so lease That is a human disaster and one that was avoidable. But I need to underscore that it could be worse. The situation is already beyond our imagination, but it could become beyond comprehension. If the health restrictions in place are not fully obeyed. That number will likely go up after a weekend of New Year celebrations. Despite lockdown rules again, so lease hospitals are declaring internal disasters. And having to open church gyms to serve as hospital units are health care workers are physically and mentally exhausted and sick. Dr. Ornish Mahajan heads Harbor U. C L, a medical center. Were overrun and our emergency room. We're taking care of patients literally in the hallways sometimes because there is just no beds available. We have equipment. That's You know, almost running out, and so it is a really unbelievable situation here. They only have a few ventilators left only a handful of high flow oxygen, a setup that pushes high pressures of oxygen through the nose. You're ordering more, and we will borrow if we need to from our sister hospitals, But every hospital is struggling with this. The ICU is at 150% capacity and the staff is getting exposed not at work, but because there's so much community transmission. Meanwhile, so many hospitals, ers and ICUs are so full. It's prompted new directives from the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency. If in a M T can't get a pulse from a person who's had a cardiac arrest after 20 minutes of trying to resuscitate them. The ambulance shouldn't bring them into the hospital because there's basically no chance of survival and that ambulance in bed are needed for someone else.
Morning Edition
All eyes on Nevada: Election officials won't rush pivotal vote count in presidential race
"Outstanding state is Nevada, where Biden has been leading. If Biden wins Nevada. He wins the election. NPR's Leila Fadel reports. Nevada State officials will resume ballot counting this morning. The secretary of state made the announcement after early votes, Election day vote and mail in ballots received by November, 2nd recounted. What's left account are the mail in ballots the state received on Election Day provisional ballots and mail in ballots that are still arriving in Nevada. Every eligible voter was mailed a ballot in the midst of this pandemic, and the state will accept ballots postmarked by Election Day until November, 10th. President prematurely declared victory in this tight national race, adding he'd go to the Supreme Court to stop ballot counting. It was an unprecedented move that many expected as he once again falsely called fraud. It raised the specter for ugly battles ahead in places like Nevada, where ballots are still being counted. Leila Fadel NPR NEWS Las Vegas
Morning Edition
The Trump vote is rising among Blacks and Hispanics, despite the conventional wisdom
"That President Trump did better than some people expected with black and Latino voters. We say it appears because votes were still being counted. The election results looked very different on Tuesday night than they do right now, and they may look different again, but we can say The president made a bid for black and Latino voters, and some responded, including in the very closely fought state of Nevada. NPR's Leila Fadel reports This year was the first time 29 year old Amanda Sandoval voted. I woke up early. I arranged for my mom to take my kids to school, and I got there half an hour early, and I waited in line and I voted, and it was a huge moment in my life because this election is so important, it's more important than any other election. In history because it's going to dictate so much of our future. She's a trump supporter. So is her husband, and neither of them voted in 2016. But this year, the self described conservative Mexican Americans chose the president because of their anti abortion stance as devout Christians as well as trump supporter of school choice and promises of a better economy. Part of what may be a record turnout in Nevada. And in this purple State. Latino voters have been the backbone to every single democratic presidential win here. Black and Asian voters are also key. And while Biden will win black and Latino voters by landslides across the country, which could deliver him the election and Nevada Trump appears to be getting more not less support in black and Latino communities. Both campaigns have heavily invested in courting communities of color and Latino communities, in particular in Nevada. Musil Harvey is a fellow at Columbia University's sociology department. It's a glaring indictment of the Democratic Party than in the midst of Ah recession and the major pandemic that a lot of minority voters. I did not believe that their lives would necessarily be better off under Joe Biden that Donald Trump Despite the outsized economic devastation, death illness is in the midst of this pandemic for Latino and black communities. There's hardly a better indication of Democrats. Inability to speak toe ordinary people about things. They care about this that in midst of the milieu we find ourselves in they still lost minority voters, Garvey says. Minority voters need to be treated as individuals. They are some conservative, some more liberal, some who want limits on immigration. People are less concerned at the end of the day when they're casting their ballots. Whether or not a politician likes them or with it or gets it or if they're woke or not, versus this person going to make my life my life going to be better or worse in the next sort of four years. We really are not a monolithic group that Sander Dixon she heads empower 3 60. It engages and mobilizes black voters in Nevada. She's hoping for a record turnout. She's a Democrat that runs a nonpartisan nonprofit and believes Nevada will go to Biden because of black and Latino voters. But she says she's a little disappointed that her party hasn't fully figured out how to really engage black voters on issues beyond identity. And so because of that, you can get all of the turn out that you want, but you're seeing the results. Of not putting in the work to engage them when it's off cycle to inform them and educate them about issues to make sure that you're actually connecting to the pain that they're having at the time and you're able to turn that into Democratic results, she says. Voters she engaged said racial justice was important because it's been a fight every generation battles a given, but most important to the voters, she spoke to you on Election Day. We're healthcare education jobs, So the political parties need to engage voters early and often on the issues that matter to them. On Wednesday, she was waiting for election results and paying poll workers in Candice's. You're so welcome. Thank you so much for everything. Among them was Dante Walker. Thie 21 year old almost didn't vote. He jokes that he was like the people he end up trying to convince to cast their ballots. Like I don't think I will have a voice or my wish would be heard if I did vote or it mattered if I voted, so that's one. He describes himself as very churchy his work to engage voters the Lord's work. I came to my decision because I passed in my church, she said. Whoever spoke unity at the election is the one who's supposed to vote for Bytom was the first person who was said immunity, so he chose Biden, his cousin, just six months older shows trump his family, not a monolith and political parties need to understand that because even if Democrats take the overwhelming majority of black and Latino voters, thes elections come down to a few 1000 votes in places like Nevada. Leila Fadel.
Weekend Edition Saturday
Trump's Support From Latino Voters Holds Steady
"President Trump is holding steady or doing better with Latino voters that he did in 2016, according to polls. That may be surprising. The president has called Mexican immigrants, rapists and drug dealers and his presidency. Is haunted with images of immigrant Children separated from their parents and crowded detention centers. NPR's Leila Fadel reports. His support is not waning, and most of it comes from men.
Weekend Edition Saturday
Trump's Support From Latino Voters Holds Steady
"Edition from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. President Trump is holding steady or doing better with Latino voters than he did in 2016, according to polls. That may be surprising. The president has called Mexican immigrants, rapists and drug dealers and his presidency is haunted with images of immigrant Children separated from their parents and crowded detention centers. NPR's Leila Fadel reports. His support is not waning, and most of it comes from men. Raimondo Torres is a staunch supporter of this president. The initially attracted me and keeps me tied to him is that he has taught Republicans how to not just win but no longer throw our faces and bodies in front of every punch that the left is willing to throw. Torres is Arizonan, ethnically Mexican and a devout Catholic, he says. What he likes is that Trump doesn't take any mess from Democrats or what he calls establishment Republicans. So on Election day he's voting for the president. Top of mind for him is the courts and the more than 200 judges trumps appointed in his time in office. My family's been in Arizona for more than 100 years. We don't see ourselves as immigrants. Sweets they are so very much is Arizonans and Americans to continue to treat us as if we're all still just fresh across the border, which most Republicans and a lot of Democrats would like to think we are just easily encapsulate us. To something that is not resounding and Torres is part of about or just over a quarter of Latinos who are strongly or somewhat in support of this president. Michelle May. Orga, a new Mexico based pollster, says the backbone of the support comes from men has many men in particular are a swing vote, their vote that we have to go and get And while Democrats will likely win the majority of Latino votes overall, the margins are narrower with men. A New York Times Sienna College poll found the vice President Joe Biden, leads by 34% points. Latina voters. But with Latino men, his lead is just eight points. Republicans will take a larger margin than maybe they have in the past or enough that you know it is starting to eat into the Democratic margin. The Republican Party has been courting the Latino vote for decades, says historian Geraldo Cadaver, who wrote a book on Hispanic Republicans. President Richard Nixon set the town. Nixon did it through a kind of politics of patronage and High level appointment, he appointed the first Hispanic treasure of the United States, a Mexican American woman and appointed Latinos toe other top positions. The big question is why Why is the number holding steady or in some place is going up slightly? Despite anti immigration policies and offensive language about African and Latino immigrants, I think I would point first to the development over a long period of time of Ah, partisan loyalty to the Republican Party and Latino Republican voters just identify as Republicans above all else, just like many Americans also could. Office says Latino voters vote on issues of religious freedom The economy trumps argument about a strong pre coded 19 economy for Latinos resonates, as does his law and order messaging. Many Latinos are cops, Border Patrol officers or in the military. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has made a concerted effort to court the vote early. I think it's been kind of amazing to watch. I mean, in some ways, the Latinos for Trump Campaign, which started officially in the spring of 2019 has been relentless in Recruiting Latino voters that they're actually trying to increase and have been trying to increase trumps Latino support, not just kind of hold it, study or depress the turnout of Democrats. That's the first thing. Randall Avila, the executive director of the Orange County Republican Party, talks about when knocking on doors of other Latino voters in Southern California. He points to a low unemployment rates for Latinos, pre pandemic, the party's preference for school choice and lower taxes. I've never seen the Republican Party fight this hard to get Latino on African American votes. I can definitely understand whether some hesitancy based off some past comments or policies. But I don't believe that is the Republican Party of today. You know, we have a number of Latino candidates. A number of Latino Republicans who are really stepping up and taking center stage. A villa says he hopes that resonates because come November, the party will need the votes to flip the four congressional seats they lost in 2018 in Orange County and hold on to their county seat.
The Tech Guy
The New iPhones Are Here!
"The new iphones are here the new iphones oh. Okay. I'm down. The Tuesday apple had an iphone event that it was all about the new five G. iphones that have five G. that even have horizon five G. CEO five G. Talking about five G. on the stage for about five G. minutes and then they showed all the phones and literally. I didn't count it, but there is a super cut on Youtube said the words five G. More than two dozen times over and over many times horizon five G. selling all of the benefits you're going to get from five G. None of which you're GonNa get I should point out. Even with the five G. phone because. All of the really cool stuff. You know the four gigabits download speeds. Are. Available Leila. Narrow tiny teeny weeny area in certain cities of the country maybe in one corner of Football Stadium. That's about it. It's only good outdoors don't work inside because it can't go through walls. It only goes about eight hundred feet. So you have to be within eight hundred feet of the cell tower with line of sight access. It can't be a tree between you can't be a building between your they can't be a human or even a raindrop line of sight clear vision eight, hundred feet Max away, and then you might get four g if no one else is using it. For gigabits not. Five, jeep with four gigabits that's confusing it's a marketing term. There's two kinds of five G. actually there's more, but there's two main kinds and the funny thing is that Tuesday verizon also rolled out. There what they call their quote nationwide five G.. The one you don't have to live in Fourteenth Street and race and Philadelphia to get. Outside within a hundred feet of the tower. That is the same as T. mobile's nationwide five G.. It's what we call. low band or It's a six hundred megahertz, which means could go through walls. It can travel a good distance. It's kind of like. In. It's a lot like what you got right now. Maybe a little faster may be probably not. Fact in some cases is even slower. So don't you know I I don't I think apple they must have given apple. How much money do you have to give apple to get your CEO on stage to get them to plug your stuff all the time to save verizon five, rise, five, g. all I mean apple's got more money than God there. The got hundreds of billions of dollars just sitting in the bank with nothing to do. You how much does verizon have to give apple to get all that attention a lot I guess. Maybe. The next time you're in the verizon store that'll explain the giant. By An iphone today billboard I duNNo. Apple also. They didn't use to do this stuff. They didn't. They didn't need to I. Don't think they need to today. They also kind of understated the price of the phone because the price they quoted people was with carrier subsidy. So, unless you're buying it from at and T. or verizon, no, t mobile didn't have eighteen team rising and it's Only, in the base model phones, will you get that deal? So it's not even the price of the phone, it's like when the back when they used to say, it's two hundred dollars with a two year contract. And you pay for it even after two years over, you're GONNA pay for that phone for the rest of your life. So there's four new phone. I just want to say that I want to get that off my chest Pay No attention to the hand waving about five G.. Very. FEW PEOPLE ARE GONNA if he if you're in a five G. Area Nice to have I mean imagine four gigabits. That's wow. That's fast. But. That's Very, few people listening to this can. Be a city eight, hundred feet of a tower you can't be outside it's. Kinda like Wi fi really is what it is Which makes me wonder why you know do people even care about this since most of the time when you're inside, you have wi fi. you know they they said Oh look a a an EMT in emergency Medical technician can get downloaded a a brain, scan a cat scan in the ambulance and look at it up because they have. But I don't does that is that something people are saying, Oh, I really wish I could do that. I. Need to do that. I don't know what they're gonNA do with a brain scan is there right driving you the hospital but okay, fine. Anyway, phones, there's an iphone. Twelve's by the way this is iphone twelve. There's the iphone twelve mini. Which is many it's smaller than the iphone se that they just started selling I mean it's really small. It's the size of like an iphone four. It's tight. But this is what's cool about it. If you want a small phone, it has all the features of the big boy phone. and. It's one hundred bucks cheaper. So. But. But you don't get it for the price. Probably you might s es even cheaper. So you know if you really want to save money get an se which is a perfectly good phone that has the guts have been I. Phone Eleven, and this is has the guts of an iphone twelve and its Tutsi. And it has a nice cameras and all that stuff. Then there's the iphone twelve, which is the IPHONE. that's a little bit bigger, and then there's the iphone twelve pro that's a little bit bigger still, and then there's the iphone Pro Max which is humongous. That's the one I'm going to get. I want humongous right. They didn't really explain the fact that the iphone twelve pro twelve pro Max have kind of different cameras. The only the twelve pro Max, you have to buy the humongous phone. If you want I mean they did some interesting things. They have a sensor that's fifty percent bigger. The that means a lot more light gets in and it has built in optical image stabilization. The sensor shakes when you shake That's pretty cool but that's only on the Max. I, don't think they really made that clear.
The Bacon Podcast | Brian Basilico - Marketing Strategy Expert Interviews to CURE Your Marketing
How To Help Marketing Build A Bridge To Better Sales?
"Most of you know, we got a new dog. Her name is Leyland bush is a 1112 month old puppy. Now, we've adopted a lot of dogs over the years. But this is the first time we've had a puppy in a while and one of the things that I forgot about is puppies require a lot of treats, if you have treats you can train them to do certain things one of the things I've trained Leila to do wage. Is to sit at every crosswalk that way when a car comes she doesn't get hit so she has gotten so good every time she sits at a crosswalk she turns around and looks at me and says check where is the tree but I'm going to kind of blend this into another topic which is how to help marketing build a bridge to better sales rep by basically giving treat. So one of the things about these treats is we have lots of different kinds of treats for different things. I have certain treats that I use would not take her on our walks. We have different treats when she goes outside and goes potty. We even have a different treat that one of my friends gave me she came over with a gift bag and in it included wage toy and some bacon bits. Yes bacon there the Beggin Strips but little pieces and we actually use those to get her upstairs and get her ready wage. Go to bed in her crate. That's where she sleeps cuz we can't trust her to be running around the house in the middle of the night. So one of the differences with these treats is the packaging. Most every kind of food has some kind of way to seal it and there are two different kinds of ceiling mechanisms that I found with these treats with your traditional Ziploc, you know where you you've got a basically squeeze it and it's kind of very precise. You have to make sure that one in fits in the other and then you squeeze it all the way across and those drive me crazy. Sometimes you cut the top of the package and you end up cutting off the ziplock. Then you have no way of locking it. But the second kind of treat came with a velcro inside of it off now velcro allows you to open it a lot quicker and does it require that Precision to close it back up. It may not keep it as fresh, but it's so much easier to work with And that's essentially what I want to talk about is is your marketing. So precise that it's more like the ziplock where you have to align everything and get it closed perfectly or is it more like the velcro which allows you to create a proximity effect. Now on proximity effect is something that happens with a microphone if I turn my head further away, I sound farther away. But if I move myself closer to my mic I get this boom your sound so that's what proximity effect does the mic off except the sound no matter where I'm at, but the closer I am to it the boom. You're it sounds it's a same thing with marketing messages marketing message is matter, but don't confuse marketing messages with sales messages marketing is more of a one-to-many activity. It's something wrong. You can talk to a wide variety of people where sales tends to be a one-to-one activity where your sales person is talking directly to a customer the big difference between the marketing and sales is the personal relationships know like and Trust has advantages over who dad's right? So if somebody sees your marketing message and knows the person sending it it has a different kind of proximity effect than it does. If you're trying to send a message out to everybody who doesn't know you Creative Marketing creates attention and awareness and it has that kind of proximity effect, especially when there's a relationship attached to it. In marketing, I tend to look at things from three different perspectives. Number one awareness posts. Hey, we're here educational posts. This is what product is or services and this is what it does or how it works sales posts. This is something you bought something and this is what you need to know next in order to be more successful with it. So awareness can create sales through proximity people may see your marketing for a particular project that they may not need or want at the time. But if they know the person associated with that it may create enough awareness to remind them that hey, you know, I need to order some supplies or you know, I'm really interested in something else and I need to contact the salesperson to learn more about this new product or this Thursday. Service or something that's been on my mind. So that's what good marketing can
Innovation Now
Chasing Space: Astronaut Leland Melvin’s Journey From Sports To Space
"As the only NFL player to fly in space former astronaut League Melvin knows how to tackle the problem. This is innovation. Now, bringing you stories of revolutionary ideas, emerging technologies and the people behind the concepts that shaped the future after Playing College Football Leland Melvin was drafted by the NFL when his football career as a wide receiver was cut short because of an injury, Leland pursued his passion for engineering while working at NASA a co worker gave him an astronaut application, but Leila didn't intend to be an astronaut. So he didn't complete the form when the next round astronauts were being chosen. His friend once again handed him an application and Leland was accepted into the program. During a spacewalk simulation Melvin lost his hearing a small foam block that allows astronauts to clear their ears was missing from his training suit. It was two full years before he recovered enough to be considered for spaceflight yet Leland went on to log nearly six hundred hours in space. Now, retired from NASA Leland encourages people to stay curious followed their passions and never give up even when your dreams have you chasing space
Nightly Pop
Brad Pitt's New Boo
"Hi guys tonight, burning questions did a-rod pays off Jaylo before the Super Bowl. Towel annoyed Lena that rod supposedly dating off. Could you marry into this family? Let's get started. Welcome to. We miss you guys. Hi, Nina High Hunter. Lo. Look. Very, stealth Meena for a second I was just. Doing the show today and then I realized bright you couldn't even see me right to him. Oh Yeah. Yeah. WanNa tone. Funny to to show that. SETINA. Tone that. John told. US All right. We all know A. Rod, a super supportive of Jay Lau, but his strategy to get Jennifer ready for her big super bowl performances. Kind of backfired. They were on Barstool sports the Corp and revealed Alex's mistake. We went to the gym that morning and I was driving her and she was talking to me I was ignoring her I was like I'm not getting the way of anything is your day. I'm focused. We'll talk Monday and she. Talked to me. Like. Zone I'm just like I'm trying not to get away. Okay annoying or sweet. Well, I think like in situations like this like this is how I feel like whenever I would get into an argument with like a boyfriend they would let me let you cool off I want you to go off and then I'll come back and I hate that I hate the cooling off period like a mad. That's when I want you to come and try to make it better. I don't want to come in and talk to don't go silent for a day like so she probably wanted him to be comforting and be they're supportive not to. Give her the silent treatment. That's the opposite of ones, right? Right. I know it's already it's already clear that you and I are perfect mattress for each other. But this proves that even more because I hate the silent treatment both ways given it and I hate getting in fact, if someone's mad at me, I literally need to solve the situation or at least absolve myself from guilt immediately, and then let's go about our day I hate the silent treatment. I hate it too. But to be fair to be for I, don't think he was trying to give her the silent treatment i. do understand what he was saying like look it was a very big day for her. She had a lot of things to. And he didn't really want to be in the way and wanted to give her her space to be in zone but I think what you know. Right exactly getting into that and then. They think that it's the same thing like he he attacks at how he would attack. Going to play for a big game but I, feel like you know she's a performer. So it's different, right? It's also he could have. Just, not been there at all. That's why becomes more distracting if somebody's trying to go out of their way to ignore you when that's not something that you guys talked about. So next next super. Woke me. Yeah. Next time this ask a woman what she needs and then got how that. You'll know. Tonight's other big story off. You're not gonNA believe Brad Pitt has been spotted with model i. don't even know how we have put this together but. Standby while butcher her name except I won't. It's Nicole. petrosky. But. You're. Spinning. It's Petrosky. Okra. Right. Thank you. She's twenty seven. And he's fifty six okay. Reports claims. She's his new girlfriend and they're saying at his sixty seven million dollar state in the south of France. Remember France. Love it. Do we like Brad with a model? Yeah I like the the thing that I find funny is he's been hanging out with Leila Lot and you know that those conversations Leo the whole time was like I'm telling you. Go for someone in her twenties. It's great like he's sold Brad on this because I don't feel like he would have done. It had Leo not Ben I'd not been doing claymation they're doing in his garage every single night. Also. He's never done this before rarely he's always dated actresses that have been sort of like within his like on the same level and who have been relatively close in age. So the fact that he he'd Busta Leo I lay. On disappointed in Brad. Brad is like more of a deeper actor like not very surface or materialistic like you know he's always been kind of associated with being a humanitarian. So I expected a little different move from him. You know what I mean I expected him to show up with the woman who might be a host of a late night show you know possibly a black woman. You know possibly you know someone on the show nightly. That's what I was hoping